Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
Articles and interviews
- The future of aid: A scramble in Africa, Economist, 4 September 2008
- Foreign fields: Rich states look beyond their borders for fertile soil, Financial Times, 19 August 2008
- Question and answer by IPS news with President Båge on the occasion of the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness: Women do most, with least assistance,14 August 2008
- President Båge's article on climate change, Climate-L.org-Bulletin, 25 July 2008
- Live interview with President Båge by BBC World News on soaring food prices on the occasion of G8 summit
Quicktime | RealPlayer | Windows Mediaplayer - Supporting smallholders is crucial to food security, Financial Times, 7 July 2008
- Only a few green shoots, Economist, 7-13 June, 2008
- U.N. Food Meeting Ends With a Call for ‘Urgent’ Action, New York Times, 6 June 2008
- Unleash the potential of the world's poor farmers, Globe and Mail, 6 June 2008
- Live interview with President Båge by BBC World News on soaring food prices on the occasion of High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
- Interview with President Båge by Reuters: Food crisis has changed game on beating poverty: U.N.
- It’s the stupid politics: The world's poor are paying the price for years of bad government policy in agriculture, Newsweek, 19 May 2008
- The rising cost of food: US warns on moves to shun food trade, Financial Times, 14 May 2008
- Investment key to battle hunger
- Global Donor Platform for Rural Development interviews President Båge on rising food prices
- Interview with President Båge by BBC World News on rising food prices
Watch interview: QuickTime | Windows MediaPlayer - Interview with President Båge by Doordarshan Television on food security and challenges of rising food prices
Quicktime | Realplayer | Windows MediaPlayer - Interview with President Båge by RAI24New on rising food prices (Italian)
- Interview with President Båge by Al-Jazeera (Arabic)
Quicktime | Realplayer | Windows MediaPlayer - Interview with President Båge by Qatar TV (Arabic)
Quicktime | Realplayer | Windows MediaPlayer - Six years on, where do we stand from the Monterrey promise?
- Expensive tastes: Rising costs force food up the political agenda - interview with President Båge as published by Financial Times on 17 March 2008
- Interview with President Båge by Spanish television station Antenna 3 on rising food prices
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- Microfinance: A lifeline for poor rural people
- Rising food prices: Inteview with President Båge by TG1 – XXI Secolo
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Windows MediaPlayer: 56K | 100K | 300K - Interview with President Båge on AfDB-IFAD joint evaluation
- Climate change: a growing challenge for development and poverty reduction
- Compensation for farmers’ carbon sequestration
- Remittances interview with Rai Due
- "Listen to the Rural Poor", IPS interview with the President on climate change
- Climate change interview with Deutschewelle
- Secure access to land, water and other natural resources: the essentials of fighting rural poverty
- Renaissance in agriculture needed to win the fight against rural poverty
- Smallholder farmers are at the centre of the President’s mission to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay
- Båge convened climate change meeting at IFAD
- Getting aid right, comments by Lennart Båge
- Watch interview with Lennart Båge on climate change and agriculture as broadcast on RAI Tg2, 12 June 2007
- What kind of investment in agriculture and rural development is needed most? interview with Lennart Båge as published by Development & Cooperation magazine
- La sfida per un mondo migliore, interview with Lennart Båge as published by Corriere della Sera, 12 June 2007
- Giving small farmers a voice in policy dialogue on MERCOSUR by Lennart Båge published in Buenos Aires Herald, 17 May 2007
- Rural development helps to create the conditions for peace by Lennart Båge published in Al Watan, 31 January 2007
- The UN system: delivering as one by Lennart Båge published in Development Today Issue no. 18/06, November 20, 2006
- RAI 1 Economia interview with Lennart Båge: Fighting rural poverty in Africa, July 2005:
Windows MediaPlayer | RealPlayer | QuickTime - Microfinance: there is a role for all to play by Lennart Båge, November 2004
- Responding to the diverse financial needs of the poor by Lennart Båge published in Jordan Times - 10 October 2004 | published in An-Nahar, Lebanon on 8 October (Arabic)
- Trade reform essential for reducing global poverty by Lennart Båge published in Development Today - June 14, 2004 - Vol XIV - No 9
- Interview with Lennart Båge by the German Government-develop-magazine e.velop - No.19, April 2004
- Rural development: key to reaching the Millennium Development Goals by Lennart Båge published in Agricuture in the Commonwealth, March 2004
- Savings - the forgotten half of microfinance, February 2004
- The Well Fed Have Many Problems, The Hungry Only One by Lennart Båge published by United Nations Chronicle - Volume XXXVIII Number 3 2001 (French Version)
- SkyRadio Interviews with the President