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"The summit of L'Aquila closes with a single firm commitment by Italy : fill the hole € 130 million to the Global Fund for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria within one month, "said De Luca Fraia, a spokesman for ActionAid the G8, adding:" remains totally unclear the contribution that Italy will just announced to the international initiative to promote global food security, or $ 20 billion in three years. But what is the real contribution of our country? And the resources allocated will be new or will be taken away from other initiatives? "These are the questions it raises a spokesman for ActionAid .
" Prime Minister Berlusconi has taken in front of the international community a commitment to catch up on official development assistance, "says De Fraia, 'but' Italy must now clarify what the Italian contribution to 'Aquila Food Security Initiative, and how financial resources will be found because - in light of reduced funding of cooperation, at the last Finance Act, approximately 300 million € at' years - could result in the cannibalization of initiatives to combat poverty : to pay for one, you leave behind the others. "
The announcement of a new financial commitment of the G8 for food security - says ActionAid - is a signal of u n'assunzione responsibility for the billion people who suffer daily from hunger, but it is still largely insufficient , especially when it is put in place one-off and not annually. are needed 23 billion dollars a year by all the countries of G8 to tackle serious and sustained the problem of world hunger.
"With respect to monitoring the implementation of commitments taken by the G8 countries in food safety, the G8 said they had invested between 2008 and 2009, 13.45 billion dollars in response to the food crisis. ActionAid claims that this figure should actually be reduced by some of the investments in the European Union food safety, as well as loans on concessional basis. In addition, "said De Fraia," it is not clear how many of these funds are actually fresh resources.
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The release of ActionAid International on the results of the 2009 G8 Summit
G8 Class of 2009: Hunger Report
July 10 2009
Spokesperson: Otive Igbuzor, Head of ActionAid’s HungerFREE campaign
“The G8’s announcement of $20bn over three years is a welcome step in the right direction to get food on the table for the one billion hungry but it’s not enough to feed them all.”
“Aid for food must reach at least $23bn a year (by 2012) to reach the MDG goal of halving hunger by 2015. This takes the G8 much closer over the next few years but there is still a way to go.”
“The sums just aren’t adding up. Is this all really new money? Given the G8’s record on delivery, this is still very much a work in progress. So far they have been counting not just apples and oranges but more like apples, oranges, cauliflowers and beets".
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