G8 Countries Pledge to Lift 50 Million Africans Out of Poverty
G8 leaders this week pledged to list 50 million Africans out of poverty via investments in agriculture.
“Today we commit to launch a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to accelerate the flow of private capital to African agriculture, take to scale new technologies and other innovations that can increase sustainable agricultural productivity, and reduce the risk borne by vulnerable economies and communities,” the Group of Eight major industrial nations said.
“This New Alliance will lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next decade.”
This announcement came just one day after President Obama asked the private sector to invest in the initiative. But the endeavor is not without skepticism.
“The G8 have offered warm words on food security but have failed to make a specific pledge to simply maintain L’Aquila level financial commitments going forward,” said Katie Campbell, senior policy analyst for ActionAid USA. “In failing to deliver this, they have turned their backs on the women smallholder farmers who are so vital to food security in Africa.”
“Poor countries have presented the G8 country-led, sustainable, and coordinated plans for food security and agricultural development, but today the G8 gave them the cold shoulder,” Lamine Ndiaye, Oxfam’s Pan Africa Head of Economic Justice, said in a statement.
As the G8 summit takes place in Chicago this week, thousands of protestors are lining the streets to fight against the gathering. The G8 summit is a gathering of leaders from 8 nations with large economies. China, Brazil and India are excluded, but other large economies are included. Together, the nations comprise 51% of global GNP and 42.5% of global GDP.
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As a black woman, I’m so happy that they’re striving for a better Africa. What can I do to help?
well this is the least they could do ,since Africa has benefited the western world in so many ways and has never been paid for it!
If anyone is that naive to believe that the G8 summit participants are willing to help 50 million continental africans, has got to be smoking crack!
This is all front, like it’s been for surmmountable years. Ask yourself; why would a wealthy person who depends on you staying subjectively poor, so he/she can suck your resources to stay in their affluent position; all of sufdden have a change of heart?
All their going to do is keep puppet african leaders in power & priviledge over their people and get rid of all oppising african leaders (Col. Mummar Quadaffi) by spreading lies & investing in affiliated terrorist groups (alquaida, taliban, etc) using western media such as CNN,FOX, MSNBC etc, to propagandize false truth to promote their global agendas.
It’s a d**n shame how we as African Americans buy into this bullshit, especially bcs we have a black President who is the volunteering mascot for the Wealthy Globalists.
We think Mitt Romney and the Republicans are a threat. Open youe eyes and see it for what it really is= Democrats & Rebublicans are our enemy!
WILL AFRICA BE LIFING AMERICA OUT OF POVERY….A UNITED STATES THAT IS NOT UNITED WITH THE MAJORITY OF BLACKS HERE IN AMERICA…OR AFRICA LIFING EUROPEANS OUT OF POVERY THAT IS NOT UNITED WITH THE BLACKS IN EUROPE…..WHO’S HELPING WHO…IT LIKE SAYING THEY HELP HITLER TO BUILD ITS WEAPONS TO GO TO WAR OR WAS IT JUST A SET UP” SO THEY CAN COME IN AFTER ALL THE FIGHTING WAS DONE…TELL HITLER WE CAN HANDLE IT FROM HERE…AND GET TOTAL CONTROL OVER THE WORLD RESOURCES…THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINAL….
So now they have found a way to gain entrance to Africa to further the plans of Cheney who stated that the leaders of African countries should be “taken down” in order for NATO to control the resources of all of Africa. This is the same tactic they used to colonize the African continent, only this time it is under the guise of food instead of missionaries. Watch very carefully folks, and see how this venture turns out. First the Middle East, now Africa. The only roadblock for this venture in the past have been the Russians and Chinese, both who have invested in Africa for business purposes. Watch and pray.