On AGRICULTURE REPORT: A U.N. meeting on the food inflation crisis ends with an agreement to invest more in agriculture, but no settlement on biofuels.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: A listener wonders if the birds could be caught and exported to crisis areas as protein to prevent starvation.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: The winners of a competition held by two groups, Global Water Challenge and Ashoka’s Changemakers, will each get $5,000.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: FreeRice.com is an English vocabulary game that aims to fight hunger.

On EXPLORATIONS: The price of food is rising sharply around the world. International officials met this month to take action to try to ease the problem.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Vital Voices, a nonprofit, presented awards for work in Argentina, Burma, France, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Economists at M.I.T.'s Jameel Poverty Action Lab have found no evidence that paying for a product in the developing world changes how people use it.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: TechnoServe is a 40-year-old group that has helped create or improve more than 2,000 businesses in the developing world.

On AGRICULTURE REPORT: The F.A.O. points to a big increase in winter plantings in northern countries. But low supplies may keep prices from coming down quickly.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: A private group, the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, recognizes six Americans for their work for cultural understanding.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Celebrities may face mixed reactions to their efforts. Just ask George Clooney.

On IN THE NEWS: Ethnic Albanians prepare to cut the world's newest country out of Serbia. In East Timor, troops search for suspected rebels after attacks on the leaders of that young nation.