What you make of 2011 depends on your vantage point. The year's events look completely different depending on whether you are sitting at the bottom or the top, in the old north or the old south. From the bottom, this was a year of protest and revolution, toppling tyrants and throwing up new governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and (probably) Yemen. So far, thankfully, fears about the negative impact of such revolutions on women's... Read more

16 October is World Food Day and the theme for 2011 is food prices - very fitting in light of Oxfam's recently launched GROW campaign.  In this year's address for World Food Day, Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), has called for serious reflection on what causes swings in food prices, and on what needs to be done at national, regional and global levels to... Read more