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G8 summit urged to combat hunger

Updated on 06 July 2009

Source PA News

Leaders of the world's richest nations meeting at this week's G8 summit in Italy must put their weight behind "a new global compact to end hunger" if millions of people in poorer countries are to be saved from malnutrition, a report has warned.

ActionAid warned that the L'Aquila summit represents a last chance for action before increasing hunger spirals out of control in the developing world.

The charity welcomed the decision of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to put food security at the top of the G8 agenda, but said that to be effective the meeting must agree a timetable to increase agricultural aid by 23 billion US dollars (£14 billion) annually by 2012.

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