In this GMF Podcast Transatlantic Taskforce members Jim McDonald , Managing Director at Bread for the World, and Bob Fisher, Managing Director at Hills & Company, indentify and discuss challenges in food security that affect the poorest segments of the world's population.

How has the economic crisis impacted fragile states and what are the implications for development? How can donors respond to these states and their societies given the severely low levels of governance? Are there local capacities or “islands of excellence” even in the most underdeveloped states? How can we better leverage the private sector to support governance, growth, and stability? During the 2009 IMF and the World Bank Meetings in Istanbul, these challenges were discussed by Senior Transatlantic Fellow Jim Kolbe and Alastair McKechnie, Director of the World Bank's Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group and former country director in Afghanistan.

On September 8, the Climate and Economic Policy teams in partnership with the Embassy of Sweden hosted an event entitled "Copenhagen Climate Negotiations: Can Development Build a Consensus?" The objective of the event was tobring the climate and development policy communities together to discuss how to better link development and climate agendas and use these connections to reach a global climate deal.  Swedish Ambassador Jonas Hafström provided welcoming remarks.
Moderated by World Bank Vice President of Sustainable Development Katherine Sierra, the panel included Nigel Purvis, senior transatlantic fellow of the German Marshall Fund and president of Climate Advisers ; Geoffrey Lamb, managing director of public policy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute.