The Global Harvest Initiative will hold a symposium that will be webcasted live on www.globalharvestinitiative.org. The symposium agenda may be downloaded by clicking here.

Output-Based Aid: Lessons Practices reviews the experience with output-based aid, a results-based instrument that is being used to deliver basic infrastructure and social services to the poor, often through public-private partnerships.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released it's report from Thomas Melito's testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture. The report is titled Global Food Security: Progress toward a U.S. Governmentwide Strategy is Under Way, but Approach has Several Vulneralbilities. To access the full report, please click here.

FAST, a global, member driven, non-profit association, represents lenders and producers dedicated to bringing sustainable products to markets. The new online marketplace was lauched with the support of Oxfam Novib and the Citi Foundation. To see the full announcement please click here.

Thomas Melito of GAO will be testifying on GAO's new report on food security to the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Agriculture.