ROME, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Three United Nations agencies on Tuesday called on G8 leaders to deal a "decisive blow" to hunger and poverty by boosting food aid and investment in agriculture. In a joint statement issued here, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme, said one of the fundamental reasons for the current world food crisis is the dramatic decline in agricultural investment from 17 percent of the total to three percent in 2006, over the three previous decades. "The G8 summit in Japan can help strike a decisive blow in the fight against hunger and poverty by ... moving to direct a much larger share of development aid to the rural and agricultural sector," the statement said. "Catalyzing public and private investment, such a decision would...
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