There are some positive news stories to tell in relation to the EU’s progress on fighting poverty over the last year. In 2010, the Lisbon Treaty put in place a much strengthened legal basis for

Find out how your money was spent in 2011. Read the Country Report on Women's Development from Nepal - December 2011 

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale rocked Haiti. It was the most powerful earthquake to have struck the country for 200 years.  An estimated 220,000 people were

Biofuels have been put forward as a way to reduce carbon emissions and tackle climate change. ActionAid believes they will not serve as the solution to either of these challenges. 

Rich countries are showing little political will to agree to second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol at the upcoming Durban meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

This document summarises ActionAid's main approaches to and key pillars of climate resilient sustainable agriculture, with case studies from six countries. 

This report is a critical analysis of how the International Monetary Fund’s new wave of loans to Malawi, the Exogenous Shock Facility (ESF) and the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) fall short as long

Food Policy Updates from Rome aims to provide an up-to-date information on the global food governance system and strategic activities of ActionAid and IFSN.

ActionAid commissioned this report on to draw together existing ActionAid cross country research on different inequalities and the potential of redistributive policies. The aim is to provide a basis

Success at the upcoming 17th Conference of Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, in large part depends on the willingness of