World Development Movement blog

Nikki reports on the World Development Movement's AGM and conference 'Not the G8: A real agenda for global justice', that took place on 15 June in Leeds.

The UK hosts the G8 once again next week. In 2005, the Gleneagles Summit was marked as a milestone for international development – with deals on aid and debt relief dominating the headlines. It was meant to hail a brand new era of prosperity for developing countries and the world. Only it didn’t.

On Saturday, an interesting sight greeted tourists emerging from Blackfriars station. Outside the imposing offices of corporate giant Unilever, 50 campaigners, growers and community activists from the expanding UK food sovereignty movement had built a pop-up community garden.

Andrew Taylor reports from a protest at the Lapindo mud flow in Indonesia.

Freelance Journalist and friend of WDM, Jon Wiltshire looks into life in Greece's growing food movement

Strange as it sounds, the latest advocate of strict limits on food speculation is none other than the chief executive of one of Germany’s biggest banks - and one that's been profiting from it.

We have already revealed that the HSBC is funding £75 billion worth of fossil fuel projects worldwide. And it is no secret that these projects are not only the cause of the displacement of entire villages and local environmental degradation – but also of accelerating CO2 emissions that are already causing catastrophic changes to the climate. What remains a secret is the level of CO2 emissions HSBC is responsible for through its funding of companies and fossil fuel projects.