Ahogy az már megszokott, a szeptember idén is az Air Wolf Hunting kutató-mentő gyakorlattal kezdődött a Mátrában. Az MH 86. Szolnok Helikopterdandár H145M, H225M és AS350-es helikopterei mellett a légimentők EC135 P2+ gépe is a Gyöngyös melletti pipishegyi repülőtérre települt, hogy a pilóták, illetve a légimentő és kutató-mentő szakszemélyzetek közösen gyakorolják a különböző eljárásokat.
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Kissé visszafogottabb részvétellel, de nem csituló népi érdeklődés közepette rendezte meg idén is a NATO-napokat az euroatlanti Jagello-szövetség.
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As governments increasingly prioritise national interests, security concerns and geopolitical competition over collective global responsibilities, traditional development finance mechanisms are being weakened, repurposed or redirected towards advancing narrow strategic objectives. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development projects a 23 per cent decline in official development assistance (ODA) between 2024 and 2025 (OECD, 2026). This reduction not only has immediate consequences for the lives and livelihood of millions of people in low-income countries (LICs) who depend on external assistance, but also creates uncertainty for partner countries, disrupts long-term development planning, and undermines the legitimacy and effectiveness of development cooperation. At the same time, development finance needs have risen sharply and continue to rise due to the climate crisis, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions and rising food and energy prices. Together, these pressures have contributed to a projected USD 6.4 trillion financing gap for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 (OECD, 2025a). Against this backdrop, mobilising greater volumes of private capital aligned with the SDGs has become increasingly important (on the need for the European Union to become more adept at facilitating private investment, see the contribution by Keijzer & Furness in this volume). In particular, blended finance has frequently been promoted as one key instrument to achieve this objective (on domestic revenue mobilisation as another key approach, see the contribution by Sen & von Haldenwang in this volume). However, despite growing attention from policy-makers and development institutions, the scale of blended finance has remained well below expectations and so far made only a limited contribution to closing the SDG financing gap. Although transaction volumes increased from USD 11.5 billion in 2020 to USD 18.3 billion in 2024, they remain small relative to the estimated USD 4 trillion annual SDG financing gap (Convergence, 2025; OECD, 2025a). As such, the Sevilla Commitment (UNCTAD, 2025) calls for scaling up private capital mobilisation through blended finance and a broader use of risk-sharing instruments. This chapter discusses the benefits and limits of blended finance as well as reforms that are needed at different levels to scale up blended finance and enhance its development impact.
Egy nemzetközi légierő-gyakorlatot többféle szemszögből lehet bemutatni: más élményt, tapasztalatot jelent a pilótáknak, a repülőműszakiaknak, a logisztikusoknak vagy az esemény dokumentálásával megbízott fotósnak, videósnak. Négyrészes sorozatomat az utóbbival kezdem, aki szokatlan módon nem a légierő berkeiből, hanem szárazföldi alakulattól került a csapatba.
A görögországi Araxoszban megrendezett idei NATO Tiger Meet gyakorlaton Vasadi Zoltán István „félig” civil szakemberként – honvédelmi alkalmazottként – dokumentálta a kecskeméti állomány munkáját és a Gripenek repülését. Zoltán egy szárazföldi alakulat, a Magyar Honvédség Klapka György 1. Páncélosdandár (jelenleg MH 25. Klapka György Páncélosdandár) Harci Forgató Csoport (NATO-terminológiával Combat Camera Team) tagja. Arról, hogy szárazföldiként hogyan került a légierő közelébe és hogyan élte meg a kecskemétiekkel közös munkát, a páncélosdandár tatai laktanyájában beszélgettünk.
Dans son focus sur la défense et la sécurité nationale paru à la mi-septembre, le Haut-Commissariat au plan et à la stratégie conseille de « préparer la nation, en renforçant la capacité de résilience nationale ». Le thème de la résilience sur les « nouvelles lignes de front intérieures » du territoire national, « sous le seuil » de la guerre, a été retenu aussi pour l'ouverture le 7 octobre prochain à Toulon des Rencontres Stratégiques de la Méditerranée. Ambiance panique ?
- Défense en ligne / France, Armée, OTANFamily poultry farming is widely promoted as a nutrition-sensitive agricultural intervention, yet rigorous causal evidence on its dietary and food security impacts remains limited. Using three rounds of panel data from the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture for Ethiopia (2011/12-2015/16), we follow a household fixed-effects strategy to examine the effect of poultry farming on egg consumption, dietary diversity, consumption expenditure, and food security. Despite 53% of households owning poultry in 2015/16, only 9% consumed eggs and 2% consumed chicken meat in the preceding seven days, revealing a stark production-consumption gap. Fixed-effects estimates show that poultry ownership increases the probability of egg consumption by 4 percentage points at the extensive margin, while each additional egg-laying chicken per capita raises it by 8 percentage points. Controlling for household income leaves these estimates unchanged, confirming that nutritional gains operate through direct access to own-produced eggs rather than income effects. Placebo tests find no significant association with milk or non-poultry meat consumption, further supporting this hypothesis. Poultry ownership is associated with higher household dietary diversity scores, but has no significant effect on food security, suggesting improvements in dietary quality without broader food quantity gains. Gender-disaggregated analysis shows that, despite lower ownership rates, female-headed households manage flocks more intensively and channel benefits more effectively into household food consumption. We also find a significant positive association between poultry ownership and diarrhea among children under five, underscoring the need to integrate hygiene and sanitation measures into poultry promotion programs.
Family poultry farming is widely promoted as a nutrition-sensitive agricultural intervention, yet rigorous causal evidence on its dietary and food security impacts remains limited. Using three rounds of panel data from the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture for Ethiopia (2011/12-2015/16), we follow a household fixed-effects strategy to examine the effect of poultry farming on egg consumption, dietary diversity, consumption expenditure, and food security. Despite 53% of households owning poultry in 2015/16, only 9% consumed eggs and 2% consumed chicken meat in the preceding seven days, revealing a stark production-consumption gap. Fixed-effects estimates show that poultry ownership increases the probability of egg consumption by 4 percentage points at the extensive margin, while each additional egg-laying chicken per capita raises it by 8 percentage points. Controlling for household income leaves these estimates unchanged, confirming that nutritional gains operate through direct access to own-produced eggs rather than income effects. Placebo tests find no significant association with milk or non-poultry meat consumption, further supporting this hypothesis. Poultry ownership is associated with higher household dietary diversity scores, but has no significant effect on food security, suggesting improvements in dietary quality without broader food quantity gains. Gender-disaggregated analysis shows that, despite lower ownership rates, female-headed households manage flocks more intensively and channel benefits more effectively into household food consumption. We also find a significant positive association between poultry ownership and diarrhea among children under five, underscoring the need to integrate hygiene and sanitation measures into poultry promotion programs.
A Massachussetts Légi Nemzeti Gárda 102. vadászezredének F-15-ösei voltak az első katonai repülőgépek, amelyek a World Trade Centert 2001. szeptember 11-én ért támadás után New York fölé érkeztek. Az USA kontinentális területének légterét hagyományosan a Légi Nemzeti Gárda védte, egységei közül az Otis 102. vadászezrede repülte elsőként az F-15 Eagle típust.
Az esemény 25. évfordulója alkalmából egy korábbi írásomat ajánlom az olvasó figyelmébe.
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Fotó: USAF / 102nd Fighter Wing