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The Human Costs of the Food Crisis: How Price Spikes are Wreaking Havoc Across the Globe

ActionAid’s new research finds that as the world faces an unprecedented cost of living crisis, local communities in the Global South are dealing with the consequences of severe price rises in food

Bangladesh
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Systems change to food security

Food is essential to life. Food not only provides the basic sustenance for physical survival and nutrition for healthy human existence; food is also a key element of people’s culture and rights!

Dr Nyaradzayi with Zambia's women movement
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Taxation rights slipping through the cracks: How developing countries can get a better deal on their tax treaties

Tax treaties prescribe how countries can tax cross-border activities between the treaty partners. In the overwhelming majority of cases, they are outdated and unfair. In the form that they commonly

Manganese Matters

ActionAid and Dutch NGO Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)’s new report, Manganese Matters, finds that the increased demand for manganese for batteries is posing a serious threat

Matlhogonolo Mochware is a community activist for ActionAid partner Women Affected by Mining United in Action (WAMUA).
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AidWatch 2014: Aid beyond 2015

Key messages and findings:Aid quantity:Despite growing humanitarian and development challenges, such as the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, EU aid is off track to meet the 0.7% aid target in

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World Food Day: Women farmers most at risk from Covid-19 food crisis

On World Food Day, ActionAid releases early findings research into how measures to control Covid-19 are affecting the lives of women smallholder farmers across 14 countries in Africa and Asia*. It

Mavis, a young smallholder farmer from Zimbabwe sits surrounded by her produce
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Fair shares: is CAADP working?

ActionAid, African Union Commission and ONE Campaign held a high level panel discussion as part of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).  The

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Game of two halves – football finals offer ray of hope in Europe while Uganda turns stadium into Covid-19 hospital

Number of Ugandans fully vaccinated equivalent to less than 5% of Wembley stadium capacity.

The Mandela National Stadium, on the outskirts of Kampala, is being kitted out with enough beds to treat over a thousand COVID patients.
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A call for action to ensure strong regulation of the financial sector to avoid environmental, social and governance risks

Across Africa, Latin America and Asia families are being forced off their land and rainforests razed to the ground – for projects backed by European money.Companies looking for land to grow crops for