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Food On The G8 Menu at Lake Toya

By MartinJul 2nd, 2008

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The G8 Summit will be held on July 7-9, 2008. Some 40,000 special police are now everywhere, at all big subway stations, in major parts of cities. Japan has turned itself into a kind, soft, friendly little surveillance state. OK, noone wants a repeat of what happened in London last summer (50 dead). So cheer up, we will all probably be safe.

What do you think they should be debating at Lake Toya, Hokkaido?

The G8 Action Network has a lot of ideas.

Alex Evans at Global Dashboard examines the G8 Agenda. Yes, climate change and energy issues are all very important. What really strikes me as the top item this year is food:

Sir John Holmes’s UN task force will be presenting its final report at the Summit. Leaders will probably pledge to do everything they can to increase food production and increase investment in agriculture – which is a good idea, though it does still leave the small fact that enough food is produced for everyone to eat today, but there are still 850-950 million undernourished people. Increasing yields isn’t the whole story.

More over at Treehugger.

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