World leaders and governments met in Rome in November for the World Summit on Food Security. The terrible background for the summit was that more than a billion people are starving. The declines in agriculture aid may now be turning a corner, but the way new money is spent is as important as the aid level.

Aksel Nærstad is Senior Policy Advisor at Development Fund, Norway.

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