G7 countries pledge extra billions to fight global food crisis

 
The G7 countries want to mobilise an additional €4.3 billion to counter the global food crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine, they said in a statement issued at the end of a summit in Germany on Tuesday (28 June).

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Leaders of the G7 countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US – vowed to spare no effort to “increase global food and nutrition security and to protect the most vulnerable, whom the food crisis threatens to hit the hardest,” according to the concluding statement from the G7’s three-day summit, presented by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday.

In a separate statement on global food security, the seven leaders also stressed their commitment to the goal agreed in 2015 of lifting 500 million people out of hunger and malnutrition by 2030. (...)