Official development assistance for food and agriculture gives priority to the support to the promotion of the private sector, particularly foreign investors. Although its weight is limited when total resources involved are considered, it is, together with the private sector it supports, instrumental in influencing considerably national policies of ‘beneficiary’ countries.
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16 October 2021 – Public support to agriculture has been promoting unhealthy and polluting products and generating more inequality in the world – A transition to more sustainable food systems (economically, socially and environmentally) will require a total reengineering of current support policies. [read]
November 2021 – The possible relevance of Kenya’s experience to shaping aid to Africa (including reflections on population issues) by Andrew MacMillan – A sharp response to W. Hague’s column for The Times of London on the “colossal interest” of “the West” in “pushing things in the right way” in Africa. [read]
20 January 2019 – In the EU, gaps in the debate on migration explain policy deficiencies – What are the root causes of migration? How biased is the debate on immigration in Europe? Are European aid policies a solution or are they part of the problem? [read]
30 June 2016 – Fences, walls, aid and fairer trade: reflecting on international migrations – It is addressing root causes of migration that will fix people in their area of origin, not fences and walls. [read]
14 November 2015 – Valletta Summit on migration: 1.8 billion euros for Africa to stop Africa-to-Europe migration – Illusion or irresponsibility? [read]
4 April 2014 – Bringing people out of poverty by connecting them to the global economy: USAID’s Global Development Lab – On 3 April, USAID launched its ‘‘Global Development Lab to Help End Extreme Poverty by 2030’’, a multibillion dollar partnership between USAID, multinational corporations, CSO organisations and universities. It is not clear how the interests of the people who are supposed to be graduating out of poverty are being effectively considered in the goals of the partnerships initiated by the Lab. [read]