Global food security
In 2012, the G8 launched a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an alliance of G8 countries, developing country governments and private companies. The G8 will return to the subject during the UK’s Presidency in 2013. As well as hosting the G8 summit on 17-18 June, on 8 June the UK will host an event called ‘Nutrition for Growth: Beating hunger through nutrition and science’. The emphasis on nutrition is most timely. There have been two notable ‘shocks’ or ‘spikes’ in global food prices in recent years, peaking in June 2008 and February 2011. The 2008 price spike led to stagnation in the fight against hunger: while the proportion of the global population suffering from hunger had been declining before the price spike, the rate of progress declined when the spike occurred.
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