Oxfam, the British-founded confederation of organizations fighting global poverty, issued a statement after the G7 summit saying that their pledge of a miserly $4.5 billion to fight the worst hunger crisis in decades is unacceptable. Oxfam’s head of inequality policy Max Lawson stated June 28 that “at least $28.5 billion more” was needed to “finance food and agriculture investments to end hunger and fill the huge gap in UN humanitarian appeals.” He said there are other things the G7 countries could do: “They could cancel debts of poor nations” or “tax the excess profits of food and energy corporates,” he argued, or “ban biofuels,” which divert crops that could be used for food to producing energy instead. Most importantly they could have tackled the economic inequality and climate breakdown that is driving this hunger, RT reported. (https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/g7-failure-tackle-hunger-crisis-will-leave-millions-starve)
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