Weekend Reading (WR)

Links to articles, events, reports, and sites. Have any suggestion? Send me an email and I'll add it to next's Friday round of GWR 

• President Obama's announcement at the G8 Summit of "A New Approach to Global Development," outlining a more significant role for global development. See also the administration new initiative Feed the Future
  
• Events and Activities on agriculture and food security taking place in the Washington Area
  
• Two weeks away from the USDA & USAID 2010 International Food Aid & Development Conference in Kansas City MI . This blogger will be there 
• Notes from IYCN's presentation on Maximizing Nutritional Benefits from Agricultural Interventions
• Informative blog on M&E in Development Project: Rick on the Road 
• In grad school and wanting to do ag-related field research? Check A Guide to Effective and Relevant Graduate Research in Africa definitely of one the best resources I've seen 
• Sign up for Global Food for Thought Listserv from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. They send weekly emails with a plethora of reports, events, policy discussion, research and much more on international food security. Highly recommended