Mark Chenery
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ActionAid is all about working for and with the most vulnerable communities helping them claim their rights.
What would make A-list celebrities such as George Clooney and Colin Farrell join up with Bono to film themselves saying F***? The famine in East Africa of course.
It is a shameful scandal that in our world of plenty, there are thousands of children right now in East Africa dying needlessly from hunger.
As corn prices surge on the Chicago stock exchange, ActionAid is calling on the US government to rationalise its energy policies to avoid undermining its own crusade to end hunger.
Curbs on land grabbing in Africa and food speculation are urgently needed to stop hunger rising again, ActionAid said as a meeting of food experts commences at the United Nations in Rome.
On Sunday, farmyard animals and ActionAid activists staged a protest in New York on the eve of the UN Millennium Development Goal Summit, calling for investment in local farms in poor countries to fight hunger.
New research has found three out of five Australians would support an increase in our aid budget to support a global plan to address poverty, along the lines of the existing Millennium Development Goals.
A major international report by ActionAid has revealed hunger is costing poor nations $450 billion per year - more than ten times the amount needed to halve hunger by 2015 and meet Millennium Development Goal One.
