G7 Food Security Plan “A Castle in the Sky”: Chinese Researcher

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) greets the President of the Comoros Azali Assoumani at the G7 summit in Hiroshima. Assoumani attended as head of the African Union. Image: Ludovic Marin / AFP

At their summit in Hiroshima, Japan, earlier in mid-May, the Group of Seven wealthy industrial nations committed themselves to improving global food security.

The Hiroshima Statement for Resilient Global Food Security called for increasing development assistance and food aid to address an ongoing food crisis in poor countries, due in part to the Ukraine war and interest rate rises across the developed world.

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