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    Development news roundup: Rio+20 is ‘golden opportunity’ to boost global food security efforts, UK aid worker goes free in Sudan, and more

    By Devex Editor // 31 May 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • FAO: Rio+20 is ‘golden opportunity’ to boost global food security efforts

    • UK aid worker goes free in Sudan

    • Bill Gates discusses health plans with Uttar Pradesh chief minister

    • New partnership eyes ‘Koko Plus’ for Ghana

    • US-hosted conference tackles child survival

    Other must reads:

    • Rio+Social invites you to contribute to its 6-Minute Speech Project

    • 10  industrial sectors in Nepal has ‘significant investment potential’ for sustainable energy projects

    • World Bank publishes Sanctions Board decisions on fraud, corruption cases

    • How can Latin American and the Caribbean bridge the broadband accessibility gap? New IDB report offers policy recommendations

    • Japan will hold Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan July 8

    • $15M AfDB grant enables Congo to modernize public finance systems

    • More than half of world’s population lack social security coverage – ILO

    • MCC’s investments in Namibia’s tourism sector made some students’ dreams come true

    • Kofi Annan thanks Jordan for receiving Syrian refugees

    • IDB-sponsored study explores how changes in civic culture can reduce violence

    • Maria Otero cites examples of how the US has made disability inclusion part of efforts to honor commitments to human rights

    • Ros-Lehtinen voices opposition, yet again, to restoring US funding to UNESCO

    • Envoy says US may consider bypassing UN on Syria

    • Zimbabwe part of Global Fund’s 20 focus countries

    • International mission evaluating humanitarian situation in Yemen

    • NGOs recommend 4 steps to climate change mitigation, adaptation

    • East Timor, ‘grossly underdeveloped’ – report

    • World Vision creates special office in Brisbane

    • IFAD official highlights importance of smallholder farmers in sustainable development

    • Nonprofits eye coop databases to gain more donors

    • World Bank health specialist: Reductions in maternal deaths critical in ‘African Century’

    • Steven Shaw: UN + Internet = ‘best idea ever’

    • MFAN to US Congress: ‘Adopt Senate bill’

    • Again, ‘aid works’ - Jeffrey Sachs

    • USAID joins India, Ethiopia for Child Survival Effort June 14

    • Worlds apart, same views: Nigerian health minister and global development president support polio eradication

    • World Bank communications officer: Good governance a must in Albania

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