Global: Cereal Offenders: How the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis

Only three short years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history,’ a global food crisis is making poverty in historically large proportions. And the G8 has so far done nothing to stop it. The ranks of the hungry have swelled to over 950 million this year, and ActionAid estimates that a further 750 million are now at risk of falling into chronic hunger.