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EU admits global climate change sums don’t add up

In a communication launched on the 9th of March by new Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, the European Commission admitted for the first time that international climate change sums do not add up.

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How Biofuels are fuelling Hunger

The BioFuel Africa Ltd plantation, Tamale, Ghana, 17 June 08. ©ActionAidUsing industrial biofuels means putting poor people’s food into rich people’s cars is lunacy in a world where one billion people are hungry.

HungerFREE UK kicked off it's Biofuels campaign with a lively debate in the London Museum of Transport. Lively, hugely informative and heated, it's now available online...

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Haiti Earthquake: Two months on

©REUTERS/Carlos Barria Courtesy of www.alertnet.orgTwo months on from the devastating earthquake of 12 January, Haiti is beginning to rebuild itself.

However, now that the rainy season is due to start, the dangers are even greater for the estimated milion people who have been made homeless.

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International Women's Day 2010

Women taking part in the HungerFREE Women in Chitwan, Nepal, December 2008. ©Brian Sokol/ActionAidOn International Women’s Day 2010, ActionAid is calling on governments to put women’s rights on the frontline in the fight against hunger.With more than a billion hungry people worldwide – most of whom are women – the problem of hunger is far from solved. Women’s access and control of resources is crucial to addressing this global issue.

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