Reduction of income poverty alone is not enough to eradicate hunger, an ADB report presented at its 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors shows. Asian governments are urged to give more importance to food security initiatives and to prioritize agriculture development

FIAN International Press Release, 23-04-2012

The World Bank's policies for land privatisation and concentration, have paved the way for corporations from Wall Street to Singapore to take upwards of 80 million hectares of land from rural communities across the world in the past few years, says farmers' movement and its international allies in a collective statement released today at the opening of the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC.

FIAN International, 17-04-2012

Devastating floodsin Nepal have forced 59 families to leave the lands of which they were sustaining their livelihoods. The peasants' families are now trying to survive as daily wage agricultural labourers in local villages or as seasonal workers in India. Especially women and children are suffering from precarious conditions, malnutrition and hunger. An Open letter urges the government of Nepal to resettle the affected families and to act according to its obligation to fulfill the right to food of disaster victims