Hedges, pledges and edges

Everybody’s calling the Nutrition4Growth at the weekend a great success, perhaps a game-changer.

The EC, The Gates Foundation, and the World Bank committed leverage the billions that are already spend on agriculture to impact on nutrition. These pledges are impressive — not least the eye popping $4bn from the EC.

Even, though with various caveats, the ever-cynical Laurence Haddad, from whose reality-checking post our title is nicked. Fingers crossed.

LATER: And here’s the CGIAR’s take on it all.

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