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  • One Rotten Apple Spoils the Barrel

    The U.S. Senate is holding public hearings today on Apple Computer’s use of tax havens to avoid paying taxes. The hearings - and the related Congressional investigations into corporate tax avoidance...
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    Brandon Wu
    Tuesday, 21 May 2013 – 17:55
  • In Haiti, All That Glitters Isn’t Gold (Part 2 of 2 Part Series)

    I recently returned from spending 10 days with ActionAid Haiti and our partners on the front lines advocating for land and resource rights and innovative approaches to food security. I came away...
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    Marie Brill
    Tuesday, 14 May 2013 – 14:00
    • #Haiti #Land #Farmers
  • Finding Value in Vallue (Part 1 of 2 Part Series)

    I recently returned from spending 10 days with ActionAid Haiti and our partners on the front lines advocating for land and resource rights and innovative approaches to food security. I came away...
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    Marie Brill
    Tuesday, 14 May 2013 – 13:43
    • #Haiti #Land #ClimateChange #Farmers
  • Addressing Hunger in Rwanda with Climate Finance

    I recently returned from a visit with ActionAid Rwanda, whose staff graciously showed me around one of the communities they work with in the western district of Karongi (Gitesi sector). Like much of...
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    Brandon Wu
    Thursday, 2 May 2013 – 10:35
  • You Paid Your Taxes Today – Guess Who Probably Didn’t?

    Today you probably paid your taxes, which helps fund social services, necessary infrastructure like roads and public transit, and more. But did you know that a lot of big corporations probably...
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    Brandon Wu
    Monday, 15 April 2013 – 12:17
  • Global Platform Trainings: An Opportunity of a Lifetime

    When asked to picture a global activist, many would think of Mahatma Ghandi, Vandana Shiva or Martin Luther King, Jr.  These are excellent examples of leaders who have sparked global change, but...
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    Ann-Sofie Jespersen
    Friday, 12 April 2013 – 18:48
  • A Mixed Bag in Berlin

    I’ve had a few days to reflect on last week’s Green Climate Fund Board meetings in Berlin, which I previewed in a previous blog post for ActionAid. The Green Climate Fund has the potential to be a...
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    Brandon Wu
    Sunday, 24 March 2013 – 09:08
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  • The Green Climate Fund: Ensuring It Works for People

    The world is entering a new “age of consequences” with respect to climate change. People from New York City to rural Africa are beginning to feel the effects, including droughts, heat waves, floods,...
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    Brandon Wu
    Tuesday, 12 March 2013 – 09:25
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  • Why foreign aid should not end up a casualty of the Congressional budget battles

    As an anti-hunger advocate, I am holding my breath. I am hopeful about the global change that President Obama could make in his second term, especially when it comes to reducing poverty, but I worry...
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    Katie Campbell
    Friday, 18 January 2013 – 11:51
  • Rebuilding livelihoods, rebuilding lives

    When I joined ActionAid Haiti’s team in November 2010, about 10 months after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, something particular caught my attention: ActionAid Haiti was responding...
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    Michella Louis
    Tuesday, 8 January 2013 – 08:00
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  • Global Hunger and the Fiscal Cliff

    The United States is facing a serious political and budgetary crisis – the so-called “fiscal cliff” – as we come to the end of 2012.  If Congress does not act in less than two weeks, automatic,...
    by:
    Jacob Johnson
    Thursday, 20 December 2012 – 12:50
    • Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme
    • Food rights
  • US Land Grab for Oil Palm in Cameroon

    US based Herakles Capital is bulldozing its way forward with a herculean land grab in the African Republic of Cameroon. It proposes to establish an oil palm plantation that could destroy over 180,000...
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    Doug Hertzler
    Tuesday, 11 December 2012 – 08:00
    • biofuels
    • food price crisis
    • land grabs
    • Food rights
  • Time for climate negotiators in Doha to deliver for world’s poor

    On Tuesday, Typhoon Bopha struck the Philippines, killing hundreds. This comes only a year after the Philippines was devastated by Typhoon Washi, which killed a staggering 1,300 people.With this as...
    Press conference at Doha climate change talks
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    Brandon Wu
    Thursday, 6 December 2012 – 14:46
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  • Sparks from Activista

    What does inspiration smell like?Returning from the Activista forum 2012 I think it is a mix of Jordanian yasmine flowers, cup upon cup of instant coffee mixed with a slight hint of sweat from...
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    Ann-Sofie Jespersen
    Thursday, 15 November 2012 – 14:27
  • Josephine: a smallholder farmer in Haiti and her story

    Josephine* is a smallholder woman farmer in Chabè, near Caracol in northern Haiti. Caracol is known throughout Haiti as the bread basket of Haiti’s northern region.  Josephine* is a widow, with...
    by:
    Kysseline Chérestal
    Thursday, 25 October 2012 – 15:38
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  • Could YOU be the one to end the global food crisis?

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    Stand in solidarity with Esther and other women smallholder farmers! Tell Congress to pass a deal to stop us from going over the fiscal cliff!
  • Urge Secretary Vilsack to Prioritize Food over Fuel

    The drought across the US Farm Belt has pushed corn prices to record highs.  Food prices in your grocery store are expected to rise, hitting people living in poverty and on fixed incomes hardest. 

    Take action today to prevent a food crisis!

Spotlight

  • As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala’s Hunger Pangs- The New York Times

    By Elisabeth Rosenthal In the tiny tortillerias of this city, people complain ceaselessly about the high price of corn. Just three years ago, one quetzal — about 15 cents — bought eight...
    José Antonio Alvarado and his family harvested corn in November on a highway med
  • US Drought Threatens Food Security

    The heat is on to prevent the next food crisis. Policy changes are urgently needed.
  • In Celebration of Unsung Heroines

    Meryl Streep just got an Oscar award for her spectacular performance of one the world’s most controversial female leaders. A few months back, three women were given the Nobel Peace Prize including...
  • Building hope for Haiti's reconstruction

    20 year old Joassaint Nelson is from Philippeaux, an area in which thousands of earthquake survivors have been living in tents since the earthquake of January 2010. 
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