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Associated Press: UN food summit to back new strategy against hunger A draft declaration for next week’s U.N. food summit would commit world leaders to a new hunger-fighting strategy by pledging to increase agricultural development aid to help the world’s 1 billion hungry people feed themselves. Under the draft, developed countries would “commit to a crucial, decisive shift” that aims to “substantially increase the share” of aid invested in agriculture to help the world’s poor become less dependent on direct food assistance. Humanitarian groups said, however, that the document was weak, and that the summit could fail if world leaders don’t come up with mechanisms to hold governments to their commitments. Read Full Article |
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