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G-8 Stumbles Anew, Comes Up Short on Food Aid
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At the conclusion of the summit of the G-8 the Obama administration had to drag along other countries to get to the $12 billion goal for 3 years of food aid to the rural poor and farmers, which is well short of the $15 billion discussed a few days earlier at the summit. Of this $4 billion a year, the USA will provide $500 million a year. THe $15 billion is itself a floor for such assistance in prior years. says Gawain Kripke, policy director for Oxfam International, "at this point the money is not looking all that good." See the link to food aid for this summit in NYT, Baker and Dugger, July 9, 2009, where the Food and Agriculture Organization says 100 million more people will be pushed into hunger by the global economic crisis of 2008-2009.
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