Politico: Bill Gates: Foreign aid works
Bill and Melinda Gates came to Washington on Tuesday to launch their new campaign entitled “Living Proof: Why We Are Impatient Optimists” which promotes “the simple but seldom-proclaimed message: Foreign aid works.” The project will make the case for lawmakers and taxpayers to continue to fund foreign aid, using videos and multimedia to tell success stories from around the world. Among the programs singled out by Living Proof are PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, which has helped to deliver 88 million insecticide-treated bednets.

The Guardian: Europe puts figure on green aid to push climate change deal
European heads of state will formally recommend this week that rich countries should hand over around 100 billion Euros a year to nations such as India and Vietnam by 2020 to help them cope with the impact of global warming. According to the Guardian, the move marks a victory for the UK and Gordon Brown, who appears to have won arguments with member states including Germany over whether Europe should commit to climate funding ahead of the Copenhagen talks.

Daily Champion: Nigeria: Global Fund Grant Puts Bednets in Every Home
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria announced today that a newly signed agreement will provide the resources for 30 million bed nets, half the number needed to meet universal coverage by December 2010. Together, the newly signed malaria grants amount to the largest single malaria initiative ever signed by the Global Fund.

The Monitor: Uganda: Food Prices to Stay Up
The World Bank has warned that global food prices are going to stay up for an unforeseen future due to growing demand and low food yields. In the global update on food security released Tuesday, the World Bank said global food prices are now increasingly being driven by events outside the food sector, including lower remittances and migration back to rural areas, which have lowered purchasing power and pressured household budgets.

Forbes.com: More Food On Less Carbon
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations says that to satisfy the needs of people everywhere, our planet must more than double its food output by 2050. Meeting this ambitious goal, and also addressing climate change in a meaningful way, will require farmers and ranchers to confront the twin challenge of producing more food while emitting less carbon.