Aid & development links: Food waste, soil pollution, sexual violence in conflict and more
- Data on soil pollution is a 'state secret' in China and receives much less attention than the issues of air and water quality. But ChinaDialogue has an interesting three part series on the victims of China's soil pollution crisis.
- Excellent read-out of the sexual violence in conflict summit, co-hosted by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie. (HT @fpinterrupted)
- The UN's list of 22 countries that have agreed to take in Syrian refugees. Germany is on top, pledging to settle 22,500 Syrians; Australia will take 500.
- Caution should be applied in withdrawing funding for HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries.
- Nice little video from Climate Parliament/UNDP on what parliamentarians can do to combat climate change.
- Big news in the OECD-DAC, with the UAE now joining the so-called rich club of donors.
- New report from the FAO on food losses and waste highlights that one-third of the food produced for human consumption globally is lost or wasted along the food chain.
- Bill Gates on why foreign aid works, part of the #StoptheMyth campaign: