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

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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