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Data to End Hunger: How to Save 800,000 Infant and Toddler Lives Every Year
As Bread for the World Institute has noted in other posts in our Data to End Hunger series, frequently we are able to identify specific problems related to hunger without necessarily being able to select the solutions that will work best because "we just don't have the data." In fact, just a few weeks ago, our first-ever hackathon helped illustrate the fact that the global community is missing an enormous amount of data that could help drive much more rapid progress on women's empowerment.
In some cases, though, we *do* have the data. It's not new or controversial.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), exclusive breastfeeding for six months is the optimal way of feeding infants. The evidence shows that improvements in breastfeeding could prevent the deaths of 800,000 young children every year. It is the most effective strategy we have to protect babies' lives.
"It is startling then that these facts about breastfeeding are well established, yet it is progressing the least," said Casie Tesfai, technical nutrition policy advisor for the International Rescue Committee. "Globally, only 39 percent of children under six months of age are exclusively breastfed, and only 20 countries have made any significant progress in the last decade. In Africa, only 15 percent of countries are currently on track to reach the Millennium Development Goals targets on breastfeeding."
For more from Tesfai, including her perspective on why efforts to advocate and support breastfeeding must focus not only on pregnant women, but on men, midwives, other healthcare workers, and community leaders, see her piece "Breastfeeding: Number One in Impact, Last in Progress."
In addition to the many events, updates, and reflections related to last week's celebration of World Breastfeeding Week, the attention of the development community was, of course, closely focused on events surrounding the Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC. There were reports on the administration's Feed the Future global food security initiative (which has now reached 9.4 million children in 12 African countries with improved nutrition), the New Alliance for Global Food Security, the commitments made at the recent AU summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, and a number of other hunger-related efforts.
Here is just one of the useful summaries of the Africa Leaders Summit as a whole, including a list of the "dizzying but encouraging array of new partnerships" that were announced.
The buzz from last week's events was significant, and that's heartening: the global momentum on food and nutrition security is still very much in evidence. At the same time, the world also continues to largely miss a "no-brainer" opportunity to save children's lives.
Posted by Bread on August 11, 2014 in Africa, Agriculture, Climate Change, Data to End Hunger, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Foreign Aid Reform, Gender, Global Hunger, Malnutrition, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What are Block Grants? Can They Help End Poverty?
Block grants are big news these days, since they form the centerpiece of Rep. Paul Ryan's anti-poverty proposal. The plan suggests taking all the money the federal government currently spends on 11 different programs for low-income people (including SNAP, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and several housing programs) and giving it directly to the states in the form of "Opportunity Grants."
That's all a block grant is: money given straight from the federal government to the states with a fair amount of leeway to use as they see fit. In the Ryan plan, states would have to demonstrate that they actually used the money to help poor people, and they would have to follow several other guidelines, but they could each create their own anti-poverty programs.
Block grants have pros and cons. Some of the disadvantages cannot be avoided, while others can be mitigated by careful design and implementation of the grants. Here are three broad ideas about block grants in general and the proposed Opportunity Grants in particular:
They need enough funding. Imagine that you've been offered a job getting all the kids in your neighborhood to school. Your new boss says, "You get a choice in how you're paid. Would you like $1,000 a month, or the cost of a bus pass for each kid?" Those are, respectively, a block grant and an entitlement program. You can see that in some situations, the flat amount might be great -- if transportation is cheap and there are only a few kids in the neighborhood, for example. But what if the bus company raises fares or dozens of new kids move into town?
The same situations can arise with block grants for anti-poverty programs. When there's a natural disaster, a recession, or inflation, there's no additional money to respond. In policy terms, that means that block grants are not "countercyclical": they don't work to counter changes in economic cycles. Making block grants more responsive to dire circumstances and emergencies requires setting money aside in a contingency fund—and, of course, that money needs to come from somewhere.
Also, let's say you choose the flat rate, and you don't get a raise for a decade or two. Worse yet, your boss shows up and says, "Next year, we've budgeted $850 a month instead of $1,000." That's what has happened to many federal block grant programs — their budgets are cut and/or they fail to keep up with inflation.
What if $1,000 didn't meet the costs of getting all the kids to school in the first place? This is the situation for some of the federal programs that would be folded into an Opportunity Grant: they are already insufficient to meet current needs. SNAP doesn't last the whole month, TANF only serves a fraction of poor families, and there are long waitlists for other types of assistance (New York City alone has nearly a quarter-million residents on the waitlist for public housing). Keeping the same level of funding is better than making cuts, but it does not solve problems that are there at the outset.
States are not magicians. Giving states money and hoping they have better ideas than the federal government about how to use it may or may not be a good idea, depending on the state and the situation. But it is certain that block grants aren't a panacea for poverty. They don't do anything specific to get community groups more involved. Paul Ryan's plan refers to the wonderful work of Catholic Charities and other groups, but the reality is that such organizations are already receiving a significant amount of federal funding. States will need oversight to make sure they use their money well. And what happens when a state chooses to focus assistance on people it deems "deserving," leaving others hungry and destitute?
As our recent experience with Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act shows, allowing states to set up their own systems can create a confusing patchwork of programs, and some states might even choose to reject the money altogether. States already get a fair amount of leeway in how they administer programs; here, for example, are the state options for SNAP. By creating a menu of possibilities for states to choose from, the federal government is able to evaluate what works—and to expand the best practices nationwide.
One of these things is not like the other. Some of the programs that Paul Ryan wants to fold into the Opportunity Grant are already block grants – for example, the Community Development Block Grant. Other programs focus on particular groups of people or provide very specific forms of assistance. Rep. Ryan says his goal is to allow states maximum flexibility, so that families who need child care but not rental assistance—or vice versa—can be better served. But one thing absolutely everyone, rich or poor, needs to do is eat. As Bread for the World has pointed out, block-granting SNAP would make it harder for the program to handle spikes in need. And people can wait longer for almost anything else than for food.
Another reason that including SNAP in an Opportunity Grant is a bad idea: it would enable states to cut off people's nutrition assistance more easily. This includes children, who are 44.5% of all SNAP participants but have no role in setting or meeting their families' goals. States would also be allowed to use block- grant funds for things other than nutrition assistance. While transportation passes and job training are wonderful, they can't replace food.
Bread for the World has welcomed Paul Ryan's proposal, calling it "an important contribution to a serious bipartisan dialogue about ending hunger and poverty." But it's far from perfect, especially in its Opportunity Grants provisions. Block grants aren't a new idea, and they aren't an inherently good or bad idea. Whether they are effective in reducing poverty depends on how they are funded and structured, on how states use them, and on whether they are accompanied by policies that create more jobs and ensure that those jobs pay a decent wage. Any legislation that comes from Rep. Ryan's plan would need to be carefully crafted to take advantage of the benefits of block grants while avoiding their many problems.
Posted by Bread on August 07, 2014 in Economic Development, Good Governance, U.S. Hunger | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Too Many SDGs?
Vuk Jeremić, President of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly, opens the first session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Photo source: UN Multimedia.
Late last month, the U.N. General Assembly's Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) submitted its proposal for a set of goals to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when their deadline, December 2015, passes.
The SDGs, to be presented for approval at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in September, are an effort to accelerate and intensify the gains in human development that the MDGs began. The MDGs galvanized remarkable global political commitment from rich and poor countries alike – and this is why they inspired significant progress against poverty and hunger.
The eight MDGs are concise and easy to remember – e.g., cut the rate of extreme poverty in half, reduce maternal mortality by three-fourths. They have proven to be easy to explain to the public and to adapt to the circumstances of individual countries. At this writing, there are 17 proposed SDGs – which run the risk of losing the simplicity that made their predecessors so popular and effective. It may sound simplistic, but it is also accurate: in order to spur lasting improvements, the SDGs must be marketable.
One of the most significant critiques of the MDGs has been the non-inclusive way in which they were formulated. The voices of developing country leaders, civil society, and low-income people themselves were largely absent from the MDG discussion. This is something that the UN has worked very hard to remedy this time around. A list of 17 proposed SDGs is a good sign— many more people have contributed their thoughts, making it more likely that the SDGs will avoid the blind spots of the MDGs.
Stronger global partnerships based on mutual respect are also a major theme of the Africa Leaders Summit, taking place this week in Washington, DC. The emphasis on trade in this first-ever event reflects the evolving view of U.S.-Africa relations – and U.S. relations with all developing regions – as focused on shared goals that are nonetheless country-owned. Thus, each country will pursue goals such as ending hunger by 2030 according to its own national circumstances and priorities. If well-packaged and well-presented, the SDGs will undergird this partnership model.
Keeping the list of SDGs wieldy is essential, however. Early research in the psychology of memory found that generally, human beings do not retain lists of more than seven or eight meaningful concepts at once. The results of a more recent study by psychologists at the University of Missouri, Columbia indicated an even smaller list, placing the optimal number of distinct ideas that a young adult can store in short-term "working memory" at three to five. Conventional wisdom, from speeches and sermons to advertisements, affirms this finding. Three-point speeches are the norm, and you will never see a commercial that tries to sell you on 17 concepts at once.
Like many other stakeholders, we at Bread for the World Institute have made our case for why the issues most important to us—a goal to end hunger and a nutrition target—should be represented in the SDGs. And there are many other critically important concerns. But there are only so many seats on the plane. What's most important in the end is that the plane is light enough to take off. If people can't grasp the goals easily, they will have a much harder time getting behind them.
The General Assembly should explore practical ways to preserve the breadth of the proposed SDGs while making them as accessible as possible. Grouping is one possibility: the 17 goals could be sorted into four or five descriptive categories that are easier to name and summarize.
Communicating complex ideas without oversimplifying or alienating your audience is about striking a delicate balance. The potential impact of the SDGs hangs in that balance.
Posted by Bread on August 06, 2014 in A Climate to End Hunger, Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Foreign Aid Reform, Global Hunger, Good Governance, Hunger Report, Latin America, Malnutrition, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Success in Fighting Hunger, Trade, Weblogs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Perfect Opportunity to Make Progress Against Hunger
Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl
Heads of state and government have converged on Washington, DC, for President Obama's historic summit with African leaders, taking place today, August 4, through Wednesday, August 6.
In addition to its focus on advancing trade and investment in Africa, the summit will "[highlight] the depth and breadth of the United States' commitment to the African continent and... enable discussion of concrete ideas to deepen the partnership," according to the White House.
One sign that this deeper partnership is becoming a reality is the U.S. government's four-year-old global food security initiative, Feed the Future. As we've discussed frequently on Institute Notes, Feed the Future focuses on smallholder farmers as the key to the agriculture-led growth necessary to significantly reduce hunger and poverty. In just the past year, Feed the Future has reached nearly 7 million smallholder farmers, and Bread for the World Institute President David Beckmann calls the initiative "a down payment on global food and nutrition security." For more on the future of Feed the Future, listen to a Voice of America interview with Institute senior foreign assistance policy analyst Faustine Wabwire.
The African Union, for its part, committed to ending hunger by 2025 at its 2014 summit, held in late June in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. This year also marks 10 years since the adoption of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), where governments committed to making agriculture a higher priority. As discussed in the Institute's short paper, The Push-Up Decade: CAADP at 10,10 of the 54 African Union member states have reached the target set at the outset of allocating 10 percent of their national budgets to agriculture.
Equipping Africa's next generation with the tools needed to build a more peaceful and prosperous future is a top priority for both African countries and the U.S. government. The African Leaders Summit is paired with another first-of-its-kind effort, a U.S.-based training program and White House summit for 500 African leaders ages 25 to 35, part of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) launched by the administration in 2010.
Simple numbers tell us why the focus must be on the next generation: as of 2012, the median age in sub-Saharan countries was 19.7 (by comparison, the U.S. median age is about 37). A startling 85 percent of all the people in sub-Saharan Africa are younger than 45.
The potential of such a young continent is enormous. But the data also point to an immense barrier to realizing that potential: hunger and malnutrition. In some countries, stunting -- an indication of chronic malnutrition early in life that affects a person's health and intellectual development for a lifetime -- affects more than 40 percent of all children.
Of the current 53 member countries of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement, 34 are sub-Saharan African nations. SUN member countries have identified malnutrition, particularly during the 1,000 Days between a woman's pregnancy and her child's second birthday, as a critical problem in their societies. They are working together to bring proven nutrition interventions -- many of them straightforward and inexpensive actions such as providing iron supplements to pregnant women -- to many more women, infants, and toddlers at risk.
The African Leaders Summit, particularly today's discussion of "Resilience and Food Security in a Changing Climate," is a rare chance for leaders to use the growing partnership links between the United States and African countries to solidify global goals and concrete actions on hunger and nutrition.
Posted by Bread on August 04, 2014 in A Climate to End Hunger, Africa, Agriculture, Climate Change, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Foreign Aid Reform, Gender, Global Hunger, Good Governance, Malnutrition, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The 10-Year Outlook for International Food Security
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (ERS) recently issued a report that projects the food security of 76 low- and middle-income countries for the years 2014-2024. The assessment was based on two main factors: capacity to produce food, and capacity to import.
The report is a follow-up to ERS' first report that made 10-year food security projections, which covered 2013-2023 and was based on the same factors.
The ability to produce food domestically is, of course, especially important in the parts of Asia and Africa that rely most heavily on local agriculture. The ability to pay for food imports is a much more significant factor in Latin America, the Caribbean, and North Africa, where countries import a large proportion of the food they need. ERS weighed both factors in order to project the number of people in each country or region who will be food-insecure.
Over the short term, ERS believes that the overall situation in the 76 countries will improve. The share of the population that is food-insecure fell 1.6 percent during the year 2013 to 2014. This is expected to translate into a 9 percent drop in the overall numbers of hungry people, from 539 million in 2013 to 490 million in 2014 (for the 76 countries in the report).
However, over the decade 2014-2024, ERS projects that the number of people who are food-insecure will increase. This is because the share of the population that is food-insecure is expected to grow from 13.9 percent now to 14.6 percent in 2024. As might be expected, the main reason that ERS identified is that the food supply – what can be produced domestically plus what a country can afford to import – is expected to grow slowly, while demand for food is already strong and will grow more quickly.
What does the report mean for global hunger? The ERS says that short-term improvements in improving food security in these countries, while positive, will not be sustained in the long-term due to population growth, weak country infrastructure and other factors. Improving production capacities of small-holder farmers, most often women, is essential. Giving women farmers improved access to land, seed, fertilizer and markets in these countries is an important key to this, and will help build the foundation to a future where food insecurity and hunger are a thing of the past.
Posted by Scott Bleggi on July 23, 2014 in A Climate to End Hunger, Africa, Asia, Assets for the Poor, Climate Change, Data to End Hunger, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Food Aid, Foreign Aid Reform, Gender, Global Hunger, Hunger Hotspots, Hunger Report, Inequality, Latin America, Malnutrition, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Success in Fighting Hunger, Weblogs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Shameful Anniversary: Five Years, No Minimum Wage Increase
This Thursday is the five-year anniversary of the last time Congress raised the federal minimum wage. Despite growing worker productivity and ever-rising living costs, the minimum wage has been immobile at $7.25 an hour since July 2009. If the minimum wage had kept up with U.S. productivity growth since 1950, it would be $18.67 today.
Minimum wage workers and their families know that $7.25 an hour means life is little more than a daily struggle just to survive. A full-time, year-round minimum wage worker earns only $15,080 annually. This is well below the poverty line for a family of four ($23,850 in 2014), and only a fraction of what an American family of four actually needs to support even a modest standard of living (see the graphic above).
It's simply not possible for one or even two adults working full-time for minimum wage to provide for their families' basic needs. The graphic to the right provides a breakdown of what the Economic Policy Institute has calculated a worker living in a part of the country with average living costs (Topeka, Kansas in this example) needs to sustain a secure living for a family of four.
In 2012, 10 million full-time workers in our country were paid poverty-level wages -- 28 percent of all full-time workers. Low-wage workers and their families are, by and large, the face of American poverty. If these 10 million workers had earned enough to put them over the poverty line – that is, the $23,850 figure, not the $63,364 to meet basic needs – there would have been 58 percent fewer families living in poverty.
Every American who works 40 hours each week should earn enough to keep her or his family out of poverty. There have been times in U.S. history when that principle was upheld. This week's anniversary is nothing to celebrate. Instead, it reminds us once again that the time to resume honoring our country's values of fairness and the work ethic is long ov
Some Americans are raising awareness for the five-year anniversary by taking the Live the Wage Challenge--attempting to live on a minimum wage income for just one week. After housing costs and taxes, that's just $77 per week. You can read stories and find instructions for how to take the challenge at livethewage.com.
Read the 2014 Hunger Report to learn more about the key role of the minimum wage in ending hunger in America. Also, check out Todd Post's reflection on minimum wage myths and realities.
Posted by Bread on July 21, 2014 in Assets for the Poor, Data to End Hunger, Economic Development, Hunger Hotspots, Hunger Report, Inequality, Success in Fighting Hunger, U.S. Hunger, Weblogs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
For Families in Central America, Heartbreaking Decisions
Why are so many more unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border with Mexico? Most (about 75 percent) of the new wave of minors are not actually from Mexico, but have made the long journey through Mexico from the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
If the surge of child migrants were caused by softer U.S. policies -- or rumors of softer U.S. policies -- we would expect many to be from Mexico. After all, Mexico, which shares its long border with the United States, is the home country of the majority of undocumented immigrants here. But as we see in the above graphic, Mexico is not the source of the increase. In fact, the number of unaccompanied Mexican children has changed little, and even declined since 2009.
The primary causes are, instead, deep poverty and extreme levels of violence in Central America. The striking disparities between the haves and have-nots in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador sustain high levels of hunger and malnutrition, particularly among young children, whose rates of stunting are soaring. At the same time, the three are the most violence-plagued nations in the hemisphere. Gangs often choose to recruit elementary school children; those who refuse to join are sometimes killed along with their entire families, and girls are frequently targeted for gang rape. This is why so many of those trying to cross the U.S. border are children and teenagers.
As long as poverty, inequality, and weak governance persist – and often worsen – many families in these three countries face a dilemma no parent should have to face: keep their children home even though they can't protect them, or send them on long, dangerous journeys in hopes that they will reach a safer place.
To resolve the crisis of the unaccompanied child migrants, border control is not enough. The root causes are at home. Thousands of desperate families have determined that fleeing, even with the risk of never reaching their destination, is the best option their children have. The United States can do a great deal to help alleviate poverty and enable Central American governments to protect their citizens. Read more about specific policy recommendations from the Institute's senior immigration policy analyst, Andrew Wainer.
Posted by Bread on July 14, 2014 in Assets for the Poor, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Food Aid, Food Prices, Foreign Aid Reform, Global Hunger, Good Governance, Hunger Hotspots, Hunger Report, Immigration, Inequality, Latin America, Malnutrition, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Success in Fighting Hunger, Trade, Weblogs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
African Leaders Commit to Ending Hunger by 2025
It was not so long ago— in 2007-2008 and 2010-2011—that spikes in the prices of staple foods accompanied by food price volatility caused a surge in hunger around the world, sending millions more people to bed hungry. Sudden spikes in the prices of essential commodities such as food affect all families, but especially those who are poor since poor people spend so much of their entire incomes—often 50 percent to 70 percent—on food. With so little discretionary money in the household budget, it is very difficult to adjust to rapid price increases. The global food crisis was a wake-up call for the global community, who had by that time dramatically cut back investments in agriculture. The crisis spurred new attention to the vital role of global agriculture—both now and in the future.
Photo: Laura Pohl/ Bread for the World
Long before the global food crisis, however, member states of the African Union (AU) had already laid out a plan to reinvest in agriculture as a pathway to fight hunger and spur economic transformation on the continent. In 2003, the AU's New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) launched the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP). That year, African heads of state met in Maputo, Mozambique and agreed, in the Maputo Declaration, both to begin devoting 10 percent of their national budgets to agriculture by 2008, and to set a goal of achieving an average annual growth rate of 6 percent in the agricultural sector by 2015. As detailed in Bread for the World Institute's analysis The Push-Up Decade: CAADP at 10, 10 out of 54 AU member states have reached or exceeded the target of allocating 10 percent of their national budgets to agriculture: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Senegal, who have already exceeded the 10 percent investment target. At the same time, 10 countries have met or exceeded the CAADP target of 6 percent growth in agriculture: Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania. Another four have achieved growth of between 5 and 6 percent.
The analysis shows that filling the investment gaps in agriculture is necessary to promote broad-based economic growth. Fifteen out of 19 CAADP countries that have failed to meet the 10 percent CAADP target leave a $4.4 billion total shortfall in funding. On the other hand, Niger and Ethiopia are two of the four countries that have met the target, and both are on track to halving extreme poverty by 2015.
It is thefeore appropriate that at the 2014 AU summit last week in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, African leaders recommitted to doubling their commitment to the Maputo pledge to boost regional food security. Elements of the renewed focus include:
- Set a goal of eradicating chronic hunger by 2025
- Strengthen CAADP by including links to social protection
- Establish an Africa Solidarity Trust Fund to support four new sub-regional projects aimed at increasing food security and nutrition in 24 African countries.
These are all timely, encouraging steps.
This is a critical moment for Africa. There are positive economic trends: over the last decade, 10 of the world's fastest-growing economies have been on the African continent. Yet despite these impressive growth rates, hunger and poverty still plague a large section of the population. The majority of poor people—approximately 75 percent—live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Targeted investments in agriculture are therefore critical and urgent. Investments must take a comprehensive approach that prioritizes smallholder farmers with emphasis on women and youth. Areas of focus should include access to credit; access to protective assets such as land; social protection programs such as cash transfers; and infrastructure—including irrigation, transportation, and energy.
As the world negotiates a new set of global development goals to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after their deadline in late 2015, Africa must step up to the plate and translate its commitments to support smallholder farmers into action. Development partners such as the United States should continue to support Africa's efforts by helping CAADP strengthen its capacity and fill in resource gaps, particularly in the development of energy, access to markets, and infrastructure to prevent post-harvest losses. These investments should move beyond simply increasing production to emphasize access to highly nutritious foods. They should focus more on the food security of rural populations and provide employment opportunities for youth and women.
Globally, the importance of focusing on smallholder farmers as essential to achieving the first MDG cannot be over-emphasized. The United Nations General Assembly declared 2014 The International Year of Family Farming as a way of raising the profile of smallholder farmers. According to the Food and Agricuture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), family farming is important because:
- Family and small-scale farming are inextricably linked to world food security.
- Family farming preserves traditional food products, while contributing to a balanced diet and safeguarding the world's agro-biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Family farming represents an opportunity to boost local economies, especially when combined with specific policies aimed at the social protection and well-being of communities.
With just three weeks left before the historic 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to be held in Washington DC (August 4-6), I hope that agriculture, climate change and trade will rank high on the agenda. These are critical if Africa is to sustain its recent impressive economic growth path.
Posted by Faustine Wabwire on July 11, 2014 in A Climate to End Hunger, Africa, Agriculture, Assets for the Poor, Climate Change, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Gender, Global Hunger, Inequality, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Trade | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Hacking For Women's Empowerment: What We Accomplished
This past Saturday, Bread for the World Institute, in partnership with the website, HelpMeViz, hosted the very first HelpMeViz Hunger Report Hackathon at Bread's Washington, DC office. The event brought together a diverse group of justice-minded statisticians, web developers, coders, designers, and data geeks who volunteered their time, skills, and creative energy to take on two compelling data questions on global women's empowerment and nutrition. The goal? To scour massive World Bank and UN datasets to find and visualize answers. We gave them four hours. They gave us a lot to think about. Here's our storify-style recap of how the day went down:
@HelpMeViz Hunger Report Hackathon kicks off tomorrow at 9am! Great time to review the data challenges!--> http://t.co/qSwVUnkmjB #helpmeviz— Bread Institute (@breadinstitute) June 27, 2014
Two Data Challenges—Two Dynamic Groups
Challenge 1: There's a lot of data missing on women's empowerment. How do we tell that story visually?
Challenge 2: Stunting hurts one in four children around the world. When women are more empowered, do stunting rates drop?
Ethernet cords & power strips galore! Room's all set for tomorrow's @breadinstitute/@helpmeviz hackathon! #helpmeviz pic.twitter.com/VdptmSItyK— Derek Schwabe (@DerekSchwabe) June 27, 2014
It's a lovely day in DC for a Hackathon. #helpmeviz pic.twitter.com/eE9jvfHtkQ— HelpMeViz (@HelpMeViz) June 28, 2014
We hope the #helpmeviz Hackathon in DC this morning is a huge success! #dataviz @HelpMeViz— Arati Mejdal (@JMP_software) June 28, 2014
Getting Started: Cleaning Data and Brainstorming Ideas
Both teams were thrown a number of very large datasets. Some were manageable and easy to understand—most were not. So the first step was to get to know the data, share some tips on where to start, and find ways to clean it up and make it easier to analyze. The close second step was to begin brainstorming ideas for how to use that data.
#hackathon_group @breadinstitute digging into women's empowerment and #nutrition data gaps. #helpmeviz— Scott Bleggi (@sbleggi) June 28, 2014
Interrelationships are key! 3 main issues: bargaining power, care, & political power #womensempowerment @breadinstitute #helpmeviz— Emily (@emily1852) June 28, 2014
Not my normal Sat, feeling inspired by #HelpMeViz http://t.co/ZEt2IohayT— Evelyn Chou (@Evyfindstheway) June 28, 2014
Women's empowerment hackathon gets underway @breadinstitute #helpmeviz. Excited to see what the day will bring! pic.twitter.com/1Oue25NoUh— Asma Lateef (@asmalateef) June 28, 2014
If you're following along w/ the #helpmeviz hackathon (and you should) here's the data we're looking at. https://t.co/2OscPvLb4D— Ben Chartoff (@BenChartoff) June 28, 2014
Starting Ideas and Clues for Challenges #1 and #2 #helpmeviz pic.twitter.com/5SshnsTk39— HelpMeViz (@HelpMeViz) June 28, 2014
Team 1: How Do You Visualize Nothing?
Team 1 had an atypical data challenge—not to tell a story about the data that we have, but to focus on what's missing. Thankfully, they were up to it.
At the #helpmeviz bread for the world hackathon wishing I had seen Andy Kirk's talk at @OpenVisConf http://t.co/0EzF9PYodo— Seth Blanchard (@SethBlanchard) June 28, 2014
We're visualizing 'missing women' in the data, but truly missing women is a much bigger problem #helpmeviz http://t.co/kODltKqBVf— Zach McDade (@zmcdade) June 28, 2014
#helpmeviz Women's empowerment hackathon, I cut out what is missing from women's empowerment data. pic.twitter.com/ZNxCrxXpg8— Lindsay (@not_young) June 28, 2014
Team 2: Reaching Two Audiences
After cleaning their data, team two quickly began to find correlations between increased empowerment of women and lower stunting rates. But they wondered about the best way to tell the story. For advocates and academics, a data-heavy visualization would work, but probably not for policy makers. So the team decided to craft two ways of telling the same story: an infographic, and an interactive data app. They made good use of the sketch pads.
At the #helpmeviz Hackathon exploring and visualizing #data on #nutrition and #womensempowerment @breadinstitute #InteractiveGraphsAreCool— Reshma Roshania (@ReshmaRoshania) June 28, 2014
Data is about cleaned, which means we're going to move from analog to digital. #helpmeviz— HelpMeViz (@HelpMeViz) June 28, 2014
Sketching away at #helpmeviz Hackathon pic.twitter.com/cyMbn2QSCX— HelpMeViz (@HelpMeViz) June 28, 2014
Four Hours Later: Data—Visualized!
By the end of the hackathon, both teams, with some help from online participants, produced some impressive visualizations and prototypes that attacked the data challenges from all angles. Heat maps, small multiples, scatter plots, bar charts and some very artful designs all brought fresh insight to the nutrition and women's empowerment policy discussion, and striking content ideas to the 2015 Hunger Report. Here are some of them:
#helpmeviz Heatmap of % data by country and year. Odd uniformity in 2013. Most measures are all or none. pic.twitter.com/Y3o9PDqEmw— Xan Gregg (@xanjmp) June 28, 2014
Update on the missing data small multiples viz #helpmeviz pic.twitter.com/C3zen6U8OC— HelpMeViz (@HelpMeViz) June 28, 2014
@BreadInstitute we hack to show it's impossible to #endpoverty if #women remain #invisible http://t.co/vqL29AwxFd @washingtonpost @helpmeviz— Faustine Wabwire (@Fwabwire) June 30, 2014
We Had a Lot of Thanking to Do
Wow. We're floored by how much happened in 3 hours at the @helpmeviz hackathon! Huge thanks to all! Next step email on the way...#helpmeviz— Bread Institute (@breadinstitute) June 28, 2014
Thanks to everyone for a terrific first #HelpMeViz Hackathon! Hope the conversation continues.
— HelpMeViz (@HelpMeViz) June 28, 2014
New Friends Made, New Projects Started
Thank you @breadalaska for hosting today's #hackathon #helpmeviz pic.twitter.com/1dzMnIAP0R— Asal Nassir (@AsalNassir) June 28, 2014
I hung out with a bunch of @HelpMeViz and @breadinstitute data geeks and I didn't trip over a single power cord! http://t.co/dBSoHU8PYZ— Julia Carpenter (@juliaccarpenter) June 30, 2014
Next Steps
It's clear to see that many stellar ideas were born in the three hours that our two teams had to work at this hackathon. The next step in some cases is simply to refine and polish. But in others it may be to continue building out the concept. We at Bread for the World Institute are eager to create opportunities for the teams to continue their work and to ultimately ready their visualizations for publication in the 2015 Hunger Report. We are now following up to decide on the best way to continue partnering with participants to carry on the work to that point.
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Which Country Is Most Committed to Ending Hunger?
This time last year, I blogged about the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI), which combines a number of variables to come up with a ranking of how serious a country's central government is about fighting hunger and malnutrition. We know that lack of political will is the only reason the world hasn't ended hunger yet – so efforts like HANCI are important.
Government commitment was measured by indicators such as the creation and implementation of new policies and programs, the strength of existing programs, and whether the efforts are supported with sufficient funding. The first HANCI, last year, ranked Guatemala at the top because of its substantial "improvements in providing clean drinking water, ensuring improved sanitation, promoting complementary feeding practices, and investing in health interventions." HANCI also noted that the Guatemalan government had launched a national campaign, the Zero Hunger Plan.
The second HANCI report, released this week, once again ranks Guatemala, along with Peru and Malawi, at the top. In these countries, governments, civil society organizations, and international partners are collaborating on programs that are making a difference to people's health and well-being. It is no surprise that the three are also leaders in the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement, with active civil society networks that advocate for improved nutrition with their governments. SUN countries emphasize the "1,000 Days" window of opportunity on nutrition, which lasts from a woman's pregnancy to her child's second birthday.
In this chart from the HANCI report, nutrition rankings are the Y axis (vertical) and hunger rankings are the X axis (horizontal). The closer a country is to (1,1), like Guatemala (GTM), the higher its score.
Learn more about Guatemala's efforts by watching a recent PBS NewsHour segment, "Widespread childhood malnutrition is a paradox in agriculturally rich Guatemala".
The PBS broadcast features interviews with government leaders such as Luis Enrique Monterosso, head of the country's hunger and malnutrition agency; leading private sector businesspeople on why they believe that ending malnutrition in Guatemala is imperative; and Save the Children-Guatemala, which implements programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Early successes in Guatemala stem from the recognition that nutrition is important across development sectors; offices devoted to agriculture, health, education, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are all working on nutrition issues. In health, direct nutrition interventions such as feeding malnourished infants are complemented by "nutrition-sensitive" actions in other areas – actions aimed at tackling the underlying causes of malnutrition. These programs together comprise "bundled interventions," which experts at The Lancet medical journal, the Copenhagen Consensus, and IFPRI consider one of the best uses of development assistance. Bundled interventions fight malnutrition in cost-effective ways; in fact, the benefits they bring are worth many times their cost.
Posted by Scott Bleggi on June 27, 2014 in A Climate to End Hunger, Africa, Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Data to End Hunger, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Food Aid, Foreign Aid Reform, Gender, Global Hunger, Good Governance, Hunger Hotspots, Hunger Report, Immigration, Inequality, Latin America, Malnutrition, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Success in Fighting Hunger, Weblogs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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McDonald jugs tee shot with first swing after rain delay
THERE'S been plenty of great golf at the Players Cup this week in spite of the blustery weather and difficult greens.
But the magic came out when Saturday's storm passed and for the first time this week, the wind laid down for an hour.
Ricky McDonald, the smiling lefty from Edmonds, Wash., waited out the 95-minute weather delay on Saturday with the rest of the PGA Tour Canada hopefuls, then promptly went to the 14th tee and with his first post-storm swing, holed his 193-yard five-iron.
It was his first ace in competition, and the third of his golfing life.
"Thrilled," was how McDonald described the moment. "I toed it a little bit. So for it to get in was awesome. I was asking for it to get up and sure enough it did."
The bowl-shaped green at the par-3 14th is sometimes an easy proposition. And sometimes not, like on Saturday, when the hole location was way back right, near the top of the bowl's lip.
"So it was nice that I didn't have to putt," McDonald laughed.
Even better than all that, the ace helped propel him back into the thick of the chase for this week's $27,000 top prize.
After stumbling badly mid-round with five bogeys in eight holes, he was able to salvage an even-par 71 to remain at six-under-par. That's only three shots off third-round leader Timothy Madigan.
"It's always fun to be in the hunt," McDonald said.
"I finished second earlier in the year in Fort Mac so to be back in this position will be great.
"Out there with the crowds, having the pressure, all eyes on me, hopefully I can go out there tomorrow and play my game."
McDonald is just outside "The Five," in sixth spot on this year's money list coming into this week.
When Saturday's tempest blew in, dropping the temperature 10 degrees within an hour and dumping a healthy amount of rain, McDonald hunkered down in the clubhouse like everyone else.
"Just hanging out, talk to some people, see what their struggles were out there today because I know it wasn't easy for anybody," he said. "I had turned in even, but then bogeyed 10, 11 and 12, The wind was just really swirling. I struggled. I birdied 13 and then they blew the horn.
"During the break, my main goal was to finish back at even part and I took care of that quickly. I'm just thrilled."
Today could provide another mixed bag of weather, but McDonald is with the majority -- they've had quite enough wind already for one week.
"Definitely," he said. "I'm really for just some sun and clear and have it be easy."
Sundays in the final group or two, though, is never easy.
"I'm not really concerned about winning the golf tournament," McDonald said. "I would absolutely love to win, don't get me wrong, but I'm just going to go out there and play my game."
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HONOLULU, June 21
HONOLULU, June 21 (Reuters) - Residents of the tropical paradise of Lanai hope the pending purchase of Hawaii's sixth-largest island by billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will mean improvements to its resorts and golf courses to boost tourism and provide new jobs.
But the island's former owner, fellow billionaire David Murdock, is retaining the right to develop a wind farm that some residents fear will harm archeological sites and native birds.
Hawaii's governor said on Wednesday that Ellison, ranked in 2012 as America's third-richest man, was purchasing the property from Murdock, whose real estate company Castle & Cooke owns all but 2 percent of Lanai's 141 square miles (365 square km).
Previous media reports put the price tag at between $500 million and $600 million, but the price was not revealed in Wednesday's filing.
"Murdock had a fantastic vision, but his turn of being the steward of Lanai is over," said Mary Charles, owner of the historic Hotel Lanai on the edge of Lanai City's main square, saying she was looking forward to having a younger and wealthier investor.
Once known for its pineapple fields, Lanai is now visited for its two Four Seasons resorts, golf courses and luxury housing. Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates booked every hotel room on the island for his 1994 wedding.
With Ellison's fortune pegged at $36 billion, many Lanai residents hope he'll be able to upgrade the island's facilities and draw more tourists. Lanai depends primarily on its resorts to employ its nearly 3,000 residents.
Ellison will take over ownership of the two luxury Four Seasons resorts as part of his 98 percent share of the island. The remaining 2 percent is owned by a smorgasbord of private residents and local government.
"The resorts need capital improvements. The golf courses need improving," Charles said. "The business community is very optimistic he will be doing that. Ellison's group is saying all the right things."
Lanai faces a continued tourism challenge with an airport runway that does not accommodate large planes. But as the world's sixth-wealthiest man, Ellison may be beyond worrying about the island's profitability.
With Murdock's departure, Lanai is losing an 89-year-old billionaire with $3 billion dollars, but gaining another who's 20 years younger with 10 times Murdock's personal fortune.
With no indication Ellison is considering bold changes on the island, Hawaii's politicians have welcomed him.
"We look forward to meeting Mr. Ellison and hope that by working together with him and the state that we may be able to do good things for Lanai and its people," Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa, whose county owns 195 acres on Lanai, said on Thursday.
The island comes with a fair share of controversies. Plans for a wind farm there have drawn stiff resistance. Murdock had wanted the wind farm in operation this year, but opposition has delayed the project.
As part of the sales agreement, Murdock is retaining the right to develop the 200-megawatt wind energy project on northwestern Lanai. Robin Kaye, spokesman for Friends of Lanai, said the plans jeopardize sensitive Hawaiian archeological sites and native birds.
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Chris Lovvorn, director of alternative energy for Castle & Cooke, said he was hopeful Lanai will one day be 100 percent energy self-sufficient, and said that the company would address residents' concerns.
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Barnes' strike banishes Burnley
Wednesday 08 February 1995
So much for the killer Bs. After Bolton and Bristol City had won FA Cup replays at Anfield in the last two seasons Liverpool survived another attack of alphabetical implications last night when they progressed more comfortably than the scoreline suggeststo meet Wimbledon in the fifth round.
Not that the tie was without a sting in the tail. Liverpool's Neil Ruddock was sent off with nine minutes remaining after fouling Liam Robinson when the Burnley striker had a clear run on goal, while the visitors' Ted McMinn was also shown the red card after the final whistle for "foul and abusive language" aimed at a linesman.
It was an unhappy end to a match that, if anything, lacked the normal fire and brimstone associated with replays. Burnley worked ferociously but were bedevilled by the flaw that has them struggling in the First Division, a lack of attacking thrust.
As a consequence John Barnes' 45th-minute goal, a powerful header from eight yards after Stig Inge Bjornebye's corner on the left, always seemed likely to settle the tie.
Indeed Liverpool could have had several more goals, Steve McManaman hitting a post and Robbie Fowler missing several opportunities. "We contrived to make it difficult for ourselves," Roy Evans, the Liverpool manager, said. "We overdid everything. We teach the players to pass but there has to be a point to the passing. We had enough of the ball to win several matches."
Burnley had grounds for believing they were the better side in the first meeting between the teams, and there was nothing in the opening exchanges to discourage them.
Gerry Harrison had David James rushing to his right-hand post to deal with a low drive after 40 seconds, while John Mullin was even closer with a 16th-minute header from Gary Parkinson's free-kick on the left that skimmed the home bar.
Liverpool began to assert themselves as the match progressed, however, and would have put the tie beyond doubt long before Barnes' goal if they had not tended to over-elaborate on the edge of the area.
Bjornebye and McManaman repeatedly made inroads down the left but the final pass did not match the build-up, so it was both in keeping and a surprise that they played principal parts in the goal. McManaman's twisting, teasing run into the area yielded a corner and this time Bjornebye's delivery was perfect. "It was a great goal that didn't fit the game," Evans said.
Ahead, Liverpool could allow Burnley to overstretch themselves and attack on the break, and Fowler alone could have scored three times before Ruddock spread home alarm by getting dismissed.
The England centre-back was betrayed by a bobble on an unpredictable pitch, and as he struggled to regain control Robinson stole the ball and hared for goal. His progress was halted by a trip, however, leaving the referee with little option but to brandish a red card.
"It's a shame," Jimmy Mullen, the Burnley manager, said. "It's a poor reward for such a good opportunity. Robinson would have scored. I'd put my house on it."
Liverpool's reward is a chance to avenge their upset by Wimbledon in the 1988 final, the only occasion the clubs have met in the Cup.
Liverpool: (5-3-2): James; R Jones, Scales, Ruddock, Babb, Bjornebye (Walters, 65); McManaman, Thomas, Barnes; Fowler, Rush. Substitutes not used: Clough, Stensgaard (gk).
Burnley: (5-3-2): Beresford; Parkinson, Davis, Hoyland (Peel, 75), Winstanley, Eyers; Arthur, Randall, Harrison (McMinn, 65); Mullin, Robinson. Substitutes not used: Russell (gk).
Referee: K Morton (Bury St Edmunds).
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