Nutrition

Concern Bangladesh is one of several organisations from across South Asia that have won a grant from the World Bank’s Development Marketplace. This is a highly competitive grant programme that identifies and funds innovative, early-stage projects with potential for impact in development.

Concern Worldwide, along with Care and Oxfam GB, have been conducting analysis of the food crisis in the Nairobi slums in Kenya.

Olive Towey is blogging from the Fighting Hunger Conference. This is her second post.

Mary Robinson’s chairing this session now. It’s about African leadership in Fighting Hunger.

Several countries are experiencing riots and protests over the global phenomenon of rising food prices. The urban poor in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, are among those suffering badly.