World Hunger
EDM number 408 in 2009-10, proposed by John Mann on 09/12/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Food and International development.
That this House notes over one billion people in the world are in hunger; further notes that last year a further 100 million people went into hunger due to high food prices and falling incomes; welcomes the fact that at the November World Food Summit 191 states reinforced their commitment to Millennium Development Goal 1 to halve the number of hungry by 2015; and further welcomes the G8's commitment to spending $20 billion over the next three years to increase agricultural productivity and tackle hunger.
This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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