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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9937

8 July 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/g8/development
G8 to make €23 billion available per year to achieve MDG on hunger, says ActionAid

Brussels, 07/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - US$23 billion annually by 2012 - according to the development NGO, ActionAid, that is the amount G8 leaders in L'Aquila must find for investment in order to attain the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce hunger in the world by half by 2015.

“The G8 is failing over one billion hungry people. In 2008, they made commitments to tackle the food crisis but since last year the number of hungry has risen by 100 million. Poor people cannot eat...

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