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The Independent View: Should G8 leaders be making a new commitment to reduce hunger?

There are close to a billion people going hungry every day. I find the scale of this hard to imagine, but if I’m honest even the personal experience of going hungry for a day is something I can’t easily relate to. I’m lucky enough to have never really experienced hunger, living as I do in a relatively wealthy country, where even if I were unwell or unemployed the state would support me with basic social protection.

The worst thing about global hunger is that it is an unnecessary injustice. We actually produce enough globally to feed everyone, but people don’t have …

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  • Roland
    @Peter - ” it is better off spending that money on infrastructure projects to give the unemployed jobs, rather than giving them benefits.” It is ...
  • Peter Martin
    @ Charlie, There's no need to get out the Ouija board. :-) Keynes wrote quite extensively on Economics but reading through his General Theory of Employme...
  • Nonconformistradical
    There's a TV program - shown recently - called 'Flood: When the Thames drowned London'. About the actual 1928 flood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Thames_...
  • Cassie
    Well put. 'Have grace and listen to each other' would make a wonderful slogan everywhere, by the way....
  • Peter Davies
    or both. We could also add new town corporations. The current "new towns" use a different model from those that delivered the likes of Milton Keynes. As far as ...