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Mobilizing G8 on food

Jul 16, 2012 by Amy Frykholm

At the 2009 G8 conference, $22 billion was pledged to agricultural development and food security. This year it was only $3 billion.

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Overheated rhetoric in Chicago

Jan 31, 2012 by Amy Frykholm

After glancing at recent headlines and listening to rumors, I was under the impression that the Chicago City Council had passed repressive new restrictions on protests leading up to the G8 summit in May. The newspapers' pictures of Mayor Rahm Emanuel looked dictatorial. I pictured Emanuel strong-arming the council into passing a crackdown.

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Christian aid groups disappointed with G8

Plans will not make poverty history
Aug 09, 2005
Britain’s two largest Christian aid organizations have expressed disappointment about the Africa package agreed to at a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) nations last month in Scotland, but have pledged to fight on for economic and trade justice.