Stopping bankers betting on hunger
On World Food Day, the World Development Movement's Miriam Ross says we are less than a month away from a major breakthrough on financial speculation on food - or another…
Rio+20: The UK’s Great Nature Sale
Kirsty Wright is a campaigner at the World Devleopment Movement. The dismal outcome of the Rio+20 summit has been slammed by people across the world, yet again disappointed the reluctance…
You, too, will come to love this Gideon
The most enthusiastic Bright Green fans, or Bri-hards as I believe you're called, might remember that I used to work on a World Development Movement campaign against the banks who…
Infographic: How banks cause hunger
Banks and other financial speculators are betting on prices in financial markets, causing dramatic spikes in the cost of food. This infographic that we’ve produced at the World Development Movement…
Krugman misses the mark on food speculation
Murray Worthy is Policy Officer at the World Development Movement. Paul Krugman is an economist I have huge respect for, and one with whom I often agree. This made it…
Nothing new under the sun in Cancún
World Development Movement press officer Kate Blagojevic writes from the climate summit in Cancún, Mexico. Follow her on Twitter at On the last day of the talks at Copenhagen, I…