Where are the commitments to end hunger?

Opinion December 22, 2009

World leaders and governments met in Rome in November for the World Summit on Food Security. The terrible background for the summit was that more than a billion people are starving. The declines in agriculture aid may now be turning a corner, but the way new money is spent is as important as the aid level.

Aksel Nærstad is Senior Policy Advisor at Development Fund, Norway.

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