Climate Change Implication on Agriculture and CIAT's Work on it

Wknd Reading Oct 9th.

News, articles, and reports from on food security and agriculture

• The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) Launches Official Website: GAFSP has launched an official website housing information on the fund, its recipients and the proposal process. The fund is a multilateral mechanism to assist in the implementation of pledges made by the G8++ at L'Aquila in July 2009 and set up in response to a request from the G20 in Pittsburgh in September 2009. The fund is administered by the World Bank and assist the programs resulting from the implementation of CAADP.
• We Can End Hunger: 10 Ways to Feed the World. Excellent article on the Huffington Post byJosette Sheeran, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme
• Ecoagriculture Partners announces CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURE, FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa: News Brief: Week of October 4 2010
• Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) e-Newsletters  Issue 06 Tuesday, 5 October 2010. Check oped  by Agnes Kalibata and Joseph Sam Sesay on the need for international support to African's green revolution 
• World Bank: Improving Food Security and Livelihood in Ethiopia through Agricultural Growth
• Montana State University receives grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fight wheat rust http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=8858
• Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog  A breakthrough in West Africa?
• Cowpea scientists promise to end African hunger
• U.S. Seeks Supporters for $1 Billion Global Food Security Fund, Lago Says
• USAID's Impact Blog: Food Security Month @ USAID: Linking Agriculture, Economic Growth, and Nutrition
• Planting Now, Agricultural Challenges and Opportunities for Haiti's Reconstruction, Oxfam
• NYTimes Raisins Give Hope to Afghan Farmers

This American Life on Hatian Devevlopment , Agriculture, and More

As as a big fan of This American Life, I was really pleased to hear a story about Haiti and the dificulties of making development work. Adam Davidson and Chana Joffe-Walt of Planet Money tell the story of a poor farmer with a couple of mango trees and enormous potential to get herself out poverty with a tiny bit of investment. As it turns out, this little investment requires navigating a complex set of culture dynamic, economic behavior, government red-tape, and NGO disincentives. This story showcases how NGOs can, sometimes, be the problem they are trying to solve; in Haiti, both the amount of non-profits and Haitians living in poverty continue to increase. This is another good story from National Public Radio  about the endless debate greed and charity.