Conflict, security and development
Nigel Roberts, co-director of the World Development Report 2011, blogs on the report’s release today over on the Bank's Conflict and Development blog. "We’ve estimated that 1.5 billion people live in...
View ArticleFood security: Voices offer solutions, experiences
In an effort to spur to the “Food First” debate, the Bank has asked the public for suggestions on solutions to the food crisis. Five of these suggestions are being used in a Facebook poll asking fans...
View ArticleDevelopment Results at Your Fingertips
Antonio Lambino writes about the release of the Results App (available for iPhone) today on the CommGap Blog. "Dubbed “Results at a Glance”, the app was created to help members of the international...
View ArticleThe Food Price Threat to Poor Continues
Otaviano Canuto writes about the Food Price Watch today on the the Growth and Crisis blog.He writes:“According to the World Bank’s Food Price Watch, a brief just released tracking food prices and...
View ArticleWhy Jane Goodall sees redd when she thinks of forest protection
Today Benoît Bosquet writes about Jane Goodall's visit to the World Bank earlier this week."When Jane Goodall spoke Tuesday at the World Bank, she said she had recently begun to understand the exciting...
View ArticleBangladesh: Mapping climate change and food security
In a blog post by Molly Norris and Joshua Powell for the End Poverty in South Asia blog, they talk about Bangladesh as "ground zero" at the intersection of climate change and food security."The country...
View ArticleCivil society talks food price volatility, support to farmers
As the Bank reported earlier this week, global food prices are rising to dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people around the world. Rising prices have pushed an estimated 44...
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