{"id":28160,"date":"2009-07-10T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:39:10","slug":"3160-g8-agrees-2-billion-to-fight-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3160-g8-agrees-2-billion-to-fight-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"G8 agrees $20 billion to fight hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe statement highlighted the leading industrialised nations&rsquo; new emphasis on farm aid to help poor nations to feed themselves, while remaining committed to providing emergency food assistance when needed.<\/p>\n<p>G8 leaders agreed to a &ldquo;coordinated, comprehensive strategy focused on sustainable agriculture development&rdquo;, the statement said, and urged all countries to remove food-export restrictions and extraordinary taxes, particularly for food purchased for humanitarian reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, told Reuters: &ldquo;The most important thing is the shift in policy and focus on the need to help hungry and poor people to produce their own food. That&rsquo;s the biggest shift in strategy I have seen over the past two decades.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Targets for the funds are: increased agriculture productivity, harvest interventions, private-sector growth, women and smallholders, preservation of natural resources, job expansion, training and increased trade flows. <\/p>\n<p>See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/LA547470.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from rich nations at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Italy committed US$20 billion over three years to increase agricultural investment in poorer countries and to fight hunger, Reuters reported. The figure was US$5 billion more than expected. 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