Health

Agriculture Conference Must Face the Causes of Today's Hunger

IPN 
Press release

Author: Caroline Boin

A World Bank/EC report ahead of a global agriculture conference asks for massive increases in funding, but Caroline Boin points out that government barriers are the leading cause of hunger in the world today.

Don’t slash spending – re-think it

IPN Opinion article

Author: Eamonn Butler

The strikes in Greece against budget cuts are a warning to all the other governments which have dug themselves into deep debt.  But the good news for some - including Obama's new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - is that budget reform can be done: Canada did it the mid-'90s.