Development Blog
There’s an inescapable buzz around the role of business in international development. Everywhere I go—from Bangladesh to East Africa, from the flurry of activity of the UNGA or CGI in New York to the WEF Annual meeting in Davos—it’s a…
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Helene D. Gayle with participants of a President-Obama-funded project in western Kenya.
Image © CARE
The UK Government has a lot to do to ensure companies pursue their core business responsibly. The current BIS Department consultation on Corporate Responsibility is an opportunity to come up with much clearer and more effective measures to get business…
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Duck farming, sustainable small business in Bangladesh. © Angela Platt / CARE
After the annual meeting of the world’s largest and most important body for agreeing international food and nutrition security policy, Larissa Pelham questions on World Food Day whether NGOs really have a voice in the process.
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A young female farmer from Malawi. Investing in female smallholders can make a massive difference to food security, yet this issue was skirted over at the the Committee on World Food Security. © CARE
Progress in tackling global food insecurity is welcome but not the whole story
By Larissa Pelham 08th Oct 2013
The 2013 Annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report was launched last week, in time for the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). This year’s report estimates that progress has been made towards the…
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Despite the IPCC's bad news, it's not too late to act on climate change
By Robert Glasser 26th Sep 2013
This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's top scientific body focusing on the issue of climate change, can be summed up in two words: bad news.
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A rescue during flooding in Indonesia in January 2013. © CARE / Paul Dixon
Increasingly seen as integral to sustainable development, the private sector is carving out a more prominent role for itself in a post-2015 MDG agenda. The premise for this is that, by leveraging big businesses and the markets within which they…
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Small businesses in Bangkok, Thailand. © CARE / Tim Bishop
