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  • A man selling beans at Katine market

    Katine Chronicles blog
    G8 and G20: Where is the farmer in debates about food security?

    While G8 and G20 leaders are devising plans to ensure food security, farmers continue to remain on the sidelines. Why the disconnect, asks David King

  • Buying and selling goats at Katine market, in north-east Uganda

    G8: 'Poverty in Uganda is the never ending story'

  • A woman folds her ballot paper at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda, during the 2006 election

    G8: 'In Uganda the big problem is corruption'

  • Katine Paul the farmer

    G8: Ugandan farmers need access to markets

  • Fishing on Lake Kyoga, Katine district, Uganda, Africa

    G8: Market prices too high for people living in rural Uganda

September 2009

  • Heather Stewart

    Heather Stewart's business comment
    In Pittsburgh leaders should spare the speeches and fix financial institutions

    Heather Stewart

    The international bandwagon rolls in for another summit, but Brown, Obama and the rest have work to do at home

  • G8 leaders want to help Africa feed itself

    Summit commits £12.4bn in farm aid over three years to help poor nations develop long-term capability of producing food

  • Enforcing aid promises

    Charles Agrube

    Charles Agrube: Rich countries perpetually default on their aid promises – such commitments should be made legally binding

    • Obama administration plans forceful policy to end conflicts in Africa

    • Malawi's green revolution

    • Time for action on agriculture

  • Larry Elliott

    Can the G8 tell the truth about aid?

    Larry Elliott

    Larry Elliott: The G8 plans to become more accountable on meeting its aid promises – but will it really admit to its own stinginess?

  • Africa and the G8: what the academics say

    Fellows from the Institute of Development Studies and the Overseas Development Institute write for the Katine website on what positive action for Africa they would like to see emerge from this year's G8 summit

  • Africa and the G8: what Katine villagers say

    Richard M Kavuma speaks to people in Katine sub-county, where the Guardian and Barclays are helping to fund a three-year integrated development project. Locals hope the G8 leaders will choose to breathe life into their agriculture and an ailing healthcare system

  • Africa and the G8: what the NGOs say

    Leading international NGOs Oxfam, ActionAid and the African Medical and Research Foundation tell us what they think the G8 leaders should make a priority at this year's summit

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