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| Cameron hosts world hunger meeting | Cameron hosts world hunger meeting |
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| Prime Minister David Cameron will host an international meeting with charities and companies later, aimed at combating malnutrition in the developing world. | Prime Minister David Cameron will host an international meeting with charities and companies later, aimed at combating malnutrition in the developing world. |
| As part of the UK's G8 presidency, the meeting aims to get more funding from nations, companies and charities toward African countries' own nutrition plans. | As part of the UK's G8 presidency, the meeting aims to get more funding from nations, companies and charities toward African countries' own nutrition plans. |
| Meanwhile, UK church leaders will call on the G8 to tackle tax avoidance by firms working in developing countries. | Meanwhile, UK church leaders will call on the G8 to tackle tax avoidance by firms working in developing countries. |
| They will link the issue to hunger among the world's poorest people. | They will link the issue to hunger among the world's poorest people. |
| The G8 summit brings together the leaders of the UK, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia. | |
| The UK's International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the goal should be not just to feed people in developing countries, but to change the way the food industry works in those countries. | |
| "If we're going to fix this, we've got to fix it at source and that means making sure that the children at the sharp end of the nutrition crisis do get properly fed and do get properly brought up," she said. | |
| "But also fixing the underlying problem of the fact that a lot of these countries have an agricultural sector that doesn't work effectively and that's why we need to get business investing in it so that they can create the sorts of supply chains that we're used to over here in the UK." | |
| The leaders of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales have joined international charities in a campaign called "If...", warning that displacement of small farmers from their land, unfair terms of trade and tax avoidance all contribute to hunger among the poor. | The leaders of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales have joined international charities in a campaign called "If...", warning that displacement of small farmers from their land, unfair terms of trade and tax avoidance all contribute to hunger among the poor. |
| The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, will lead a service at Methodist Central Hall, in central London, to show solidarity with the one in eight of the world's people who he says go to bed hungry each night. | |
| Countering avoidance | Countering avoidance |
| Charity Action Aid has published data showing that at least three of the companies attending the meeting with the prime minister, all of which have extensive operations in the developing world - Unilever, Glaxo Smith Kline and Vodafone - have subsidiaries in numerous tax havens. | Charity Action Aid has published data showing that at least three of the companies attending the meeting with the prime minister, all of which have extensive operations in the developing world - Unilever, Glaxo Smith Kline and Vodafone - have subsidiaries in numerous tax havens. |
| Action Aid campaigns for countries to pay more tax in developing countries. | Action Aid campaigns for countries to pay more tax in developing countries. |
| The charity stressed that the use of tax havens did not in itself prove tax avoidance, but did highlight the extent to which multinational companies operated in places that provide tax advantages. | The charity stressed that the use of tax havens did not in itself prove tax avoidance, but did highlight the extent to which multinational companies operated in places that provide tax advantages. |
| The three named companies all told the BBC they paid the taxes due in the countries in which they operate. Vodafone said the Action Aid research was flawed and misleading. | The three named companies all told the BBC they paid the taxes due in the countries in which they operate. Vodafone said the Action Aid research was flawed and misleading. |
| Mr Cameron has said countering tax avoidance is a priority during this year's British presidency of the G8 group of leading industrialised nations. | Mr Cameron has said countering tax avoidance is a priority during this year's British presidency of the G8 group of leading industrialised nations. |
| As well as claiming the lives of three million children each year in the developing world, malnutrition stunts the growth and affects the brain development of others - impacting on the economic prospects of whole nations. | As well as claiming the lives of three million children each year in the developing world, malnutrition stunts the growth and affects the brain development of others - impacting on the economic prospects of whole nations. |
| Also on Saturday, the "If..." campaign hopes to attract thousands of people to a rally in London's Hyde Park in the afternoon. | Also on Saturday, the "If..." campaign hopes to attract thousands of people to a rally in London's Hyde Park in the afternoon. |
| Speakers will include Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. | Speakers will include Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. |
| G8 leaders gather on 17-18 June in Lough Erne, where world hunger is expected to be a prominent issue. | G8 leaders gather on 17-18 June in Lough Erne, where world hunger is expected to be a prominent issue. |