Check out this video by Oxfam about foreign aid and corruption: click here for video

 Oxfam America will host a discussion on how we can improve aid to developing countries?  For more information go to Oxfam America.  Or watch the conference on our web site after Friday, May 21st at 9am.

Great article about the foreign aid debate - read and share this article by Nick Wadhams? - TIME Magazine - Bad Charity? (All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt!)

Check out this article in foreignpolicy.com on leaked document, "A New Way Forward on Global Development" and the discussion that is taking place in Washington about changing the entire structure of USAID.  It is a short article, but this development could have huge effects of how USAID operates and the impact overseas - click here for the article in Foreign Policy

Also, Oxfam America is working hard to build support for USAID reform - click here to follow their efforts

A great article in the Harvard Gazette about rebuilding in Haiti.  Featuring Paul Farmer and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) (which has lots of important information).  Read the article and watch the video here.

There was an article in yesterdays, NY Times by John Collins Rudolf about food and agriculture production in Africa - click here to read the article.

In Minnesota and other midwest states in the U.S. the average farmer uses 100 kilograms of chemical fertilizer per hectare and the average farmer in Kenya uses only 7 kilograms per hectare.  Less fertilizer is better for the environment.  The question is how to have a "green revolution" in Africa without the environmental problems.  Dr. Chinkunutha, the economist turned farmer who appears in "What are we doing here?" says organic agriculture is the way to go?  Now the Malawian government is getting results by subsidising chemical fertilizer to it's countries farmers.  Either way, we need to end the way we give out food aid as that has a direct negative effect on African farmers - click here for more information on food aid/African farmers.

A Different Kind of Capitalism - Jacqueline Novogratz, whose Acumen Fund is reinventing that landscape with what it calls "patient capitalism," is charting a third way between investment for profit and aid for free.  Listen to the radio show here on Speaking of Faith

*photo from Acumen Fund

A very interesting talk by Peter Eigen, the former World Bank Director in Nairobi about how corruption happens and what to do.

Click here to listen.