G8 to tackle food crisis

Published July 6, 2008

BERLIN, July 5: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that the G8 group of top industrialised nations at next week’s summit will take measures to fight the soaring price of food.

“A vast catalogue of measures to guarantee food supplies worldwide” is expected to be adopted at the G8 summit in the northern Japanese city of Toyako, Merkel told the Tagesspiegel am Sonntag.

The measures, based on a German government concept, is intended “to provide short term relief to the food crisis and a long-term strategy to increase the world agricultural production,” Merkel said.—AFP

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