Earnán Ó Cléirigh presents OECD publication on aid for food and nutrition security
Channel: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Date: 12/10/2012

Virtual briefing__ Development aid for the nearly one billion people not enjoying food and nutrition security (FNS) has increased over the past ten years -- but was only around seven percent of total Official Development Assistance. There has not been an increase in aid for FNS above the general increase in aid, despite recent food price hikes and an intensified political interest in FNS.
 
Virtual briefing__ Earnán Ó Cléirigh, OECD Senior Policy Advisor, Global Food Security Policy Division, presents an OECD publication on the tracking of aid for food security and agriculture. It monitors and reports on the delivery of the pledges made under the L'Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI). Some of the questions addressed in the publication and the virtual briefing are what aid is being spent on, who are the main donors and recipients and how much aid goes to food crisis areas. The data and analysis allow for a comparison between what donors have been focusing on under AFSI as well as their broader efforts to promote FNS.

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