ODI e-Newsletter

	Overseas Development Institute (ODI) newsletter  October 2012

	ODI on... the post-2015 High-Level Panel
	There is already an active debate on what might follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), when they expire in 2015. ODI is right at the heart of it, with our research and policy advice linking directly to governments, NGOs and UN agencies.

	Our 2011-2012 Annual Report: impacts and priorities Our 2011-2012 Annual Report reveals how we ensure ODI stays at the forefront of global thinking on the key development issues of today and tomorrow.   Without precedent: financing climate change action in vunerable countries The climate finance debate has now turned attention to issues of national budgets but as Neil Bird argues 'there is no simple solution to the question of how to place a cost on the national response to climate change'.

	The relevance of 'resilience'? Resilience increasingly dominates debates in climate change adaptation and humanitarian aid, but as this paper argues current ways of portraying resilience are not always useful in diagnosing vulnerability.   Some relief for food prices? The latest ODI Food Price Update finds some relief on food prices after the shock of US maize losses, as fears over the Indian monsoon abate and rice harvests are set to equal records.