Roads, railways and research can stop global food waste
Investing in agricultural R&D to boost yields and reduce food prices for poor people is one of the smartest things the world should focus on and is among the smartest targets as chosen our expert panel.
The chief problem with trying to do everything at once is that we end up doing very little at all.
Bjorn Lomborg, shares with Amitava Kar of the Daily Star, the ideas behind and the goal of the Bangladesh Priorities project – finding smart solutions for Bangladesh.
We will engage Bangladeshis across the cou...
Bjorn Lomborg’s newest contribution to Project Syndicate discusses the topic of ‘food security’ and smart ways the post-2015 development agenda can help.
One-quarter of all the food in the world is lost each y...
The Bangladesh Priorities project has begun a series of ‘idea roundtable’ discussions. The main purpose of the roundtables are to solicit research ideas on scalable interventions for a challenges such as poverty, fo...
If you ask everyone don’t be surprised that you end up with lots and lots of targets."
Bjorn Lomborg stopped by the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal to discuss how the United Nations can set rational tar...
Sustainable Development Goals are not fit for purpose, experts warn
EurActive published an article which reports on the findings of the Post-2015 Consensus project.
The United Nations has drawn up a list of 169 targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the...
Fed up with UK aid being frittered away? Here are 19 things it should really be spent on...
On Sunday, David Cameron will meet fellow world leaders at the G7 conference in Germany. There he has an opportunity to quadruple the reach of British and global aid without spending an extra penny.
There is still much awareness building work to be done in order to ensure the United Nations decides an ambitious albeit concise list of smart targets for the world.
On 2nd June, Bjorn Lomborg presented the work of the Post-2015 Consensus and the expert panel’s 19 smartest targets for the world, at the United States' Agency for International Development (USAID).
The talk w...
