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Biggest hunger campaign in almost a decade
A campaign to end world hunger and poverty is being backed by charities and celebrities across the UK.
The 'Enough Food For Everyone If' appeal is the biggest attempt in almost a decade to try and end world hunger.
Celebrities such as pop band One Direction, Actor Orlando Bloom and Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky have appeared in an advert about the campaign.
IF: 'We need a concerted effort from governments'
Multi charity coalition IF claims that tackling the 'corporation tax gap' by multinational companies could help developing countries to raise enough revenue every day to save the lives of 230 children under five.
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Calls for Cameron to tackle hunger issues through G8
The IF campaign will be formally launched tonight in London, a multi charity campaign aiming to end world hunger and poverty.
Backed by a hundred charities, the IF coalition is asking for Prime Minister David Cameron to tackle four main issues through the G8:
- Stop poor farmers being forced off their land, and use the available land to grow food for people, not biofuels for cars
- Ensure governments keep their promises on aid, invest to stop children dying from malnutrition and help the poorest people feed themselves through investment in small farmers
- Make governments stop big companies dodging tax in poor countries, so that millions of people can free themselves from hunger
- Force governments and investors to be "honest and open" about the deals they make in the poorest countries that stop people getting enough food
IF: One in eight people go to bed hungry every night
Despite there being enough food in the world to feed everyone, one in eight women, men and children go to bed hungry every night.
A report from charity coalition IF, which aims to combat world hunger and poverty, claims that nearly 940 million young people will see their life chances permanently damaged by the impact of childhood hunger by 2025.
The coalition is made up of a hundred British charities, backing the campaign to put an end to world hunger.
Desmond Tutu: 'Hunger is not an incurable disease'
Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and long-serving human rights campaigner, is backing a multi charity campaign to end world hunger.
- ITV Report
'Every day 1 in 8 people on the planet go to bed hungry'
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Celebrities back one of the biggest world hunger campaigns
An anti-hunger campaign will be launched in London tonight, warning that almost a billion young people could see themselves in poverty in 2025.
The IF campaign has released a report stating that much of the good work done over the past decade to help people out of poverty is at risk of being undone.
Celebrities Bill Nighy and Keeley Hawes are behind the campaign, that is urging Prime Minister David Cameron to use the UK's G8 presidency, to help combat world hunger.
The report claims that malnutrition could cost developing countries an annual $125 billion (£78 billion) in lost economic output by 2030.
Charities tweet support of world poverty campaign
One hundred development and faith British charities are backing a campaign to end world hunger and poverty.
The charities are urging Prime Minister David Cameron to use the UK's G8 presidency in 2013 to tackle causes of hunger in the developing world.
Multi charity campaign to combat world poverty
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are backing a multiple charity campaign, aiming to combat malnutrition and hunger in the developing world.
One hundred development and faith British charities have backed the 'Enough Food For Everyone If' appeal, urging the Prime Minister to use the UK's G8 presidency in 2013 to tackle the causes of hunger in the developing world.
The campaign, which launches today is possibly the largest coalition of its kind in the UK since Make Poverty History in 2005.
It warns that almost a billion young people could find themselves in poverty by 2025, costing the developed world £78 billion over the next 15 years.