Africa: International - G8 Leaders Urged to Boost Investment in Agriculture
                   
allafrica.com     Jul 8, 2008            

Posted to the web 8 July 2008 The United Nations agencies working to alleviate global hunger have called for decisive action by the Group of Eight (G8) most industrialised countries, currently meeting in Japan, to boost investment in agriculture to help feed the world. The three Rome-based agencies - the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) - pointed out that one of the main causes of the current food crisis was the decline in agricultural investment over the past three decades. "The G8 Summit in Japan can help strike a decisive blow in the fight against hunger and poverty by reversing that trend and moving to direct a much larger share of development aid to the rural and agricultural sector," said the joint statement, signed... [read full story]                    


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