Tue, 09/29/2009

This week's edition of "In the News" will highlight the outcomes and documents of recent developments in global hunger and food security.

Release of Obama Administration’s Global hunger and Food Security Initiative

• Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, Consultation Document
• Briefing by Chief of Staff and Counselor Cheryl Mills on Food Security

G-20 Summit

• G-20 Asks World Bank to Set up Agriculture Fund, Reuters, Sept. 25
• G-20 Leader's Statement Released, Sept. 25
• Remarks by President Obama at G-20 Closing Press Conference, The White House, Sept. 25

United Nations General Assembly/High-Level Food Securty Meeting (Co-Hosted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon)

• Honour Billion Dollar Aid Pledges to World's Poor, Ban Tells G-20 Summit, UN News Centre, Sept. 25
• Partnering for Food Security: Moving Forward, Sept. 26
• Remarks at Food Security Event Co-Hosted with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon During the UN General Assembly, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sept. 26

Other News

• Remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative Closing Plenary, by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
• 2050 Africa's Food Challenge - Prospects Good, Resources Abundant, Policy Must Improve, FAO Media Centre, Sept. 28
• Malawi: Surplus Crop, But We Are Starving - Farmers, allAfrica.com, Sept. 28
• WFP says faces "moment of distress" to feed hungry, Reuters, Sept. 28
• Think Again: The Green Revolution, by Peter Hazell, Foreign Policy, Sept. 22
• UK Commits to New Deal for African Agriculture, CAADP, Sept. 28
• Prospects Good for Africa Agriculture, VOA News, Sept. 28
• Zimbabwe Farm Violence Worsening - Farmers Union, Reuters, Sept. 30

The weekly post, “In the News”, lists current headlines and news stories on agricultural development in Africa.