Smallholder farming is key to improving nutrition

Canada has supported both nutritional interventions like vitamin supplements, and long-term nutrition improvement through smallholder agricultural development. This balance should be maintained.

4 issues to watch in the post-2015 development agenda

Aid recipients want diplomatic and economic relations, not just aid

To be effective and influential, Canada needs to talk at par with developing countries, and be able to tackle all their issues.

How to avoid merger mishaps

Chief among committee witnesses’ recommendations are a clear foreign policy strategy, a shared physical space, and fences around spending.

If donor countries try to serve themselves and aid recipients, neither wins

It didn’t work in Afghanistan or to bring about Arab-Israeli peace.

Mali’s post-crisis crisis

Canada is wrong to simply write cheques and follow the lead of France and the US in a country where it has interests, responsibilities, and real experience.

How not to do business in China

Success in today’s China lies in sustainable and substantive corporate social responsibility policies. Image-building exercises don’t cut it.

Harper to scope out Pacific Alliance for himself

In Peru, PM will talk trade and mining.

Fending off a future without food

‘When it comes to sustainability and climate change, our government needs to step up to the plate.’

Syrian civilians: The forgotten front in a complex conflict

Almost seven million Syrians are directly affected by the conflict. More than four million of them have been forced to leave their homes. And 1.5 million have fled to refugee camps or host communities in neighbouring countries.

Why is Canada friendly with repressive Honduran regime?

Canada’s official human rights and good governance rhetoric seems to be subordinated, in practice, to business interests.