Morning Briefing

"[A]nti-poverty advocates [are] urg[ing] President Obama to 'find political will to end global hunger' during the upcoming G8 Summit at Camp David," Inter Press Service reports. Members of ActionAid last week held signs in front of the White House "that read 'Obama: Find the Will to be a Hunger Hero at the G8,' next to a cutout of the president in a superhero suit," the news service writes (Panagoda, 4/7). And "[a] new report by ONE Campaign said increased donor support for agricultural investment plans in 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Central America could lift about 50 million people out of extreme poverty," Reuters notes. "ONE said it would launch its 'Thrive' campaign in France, Germany, Britain and the United States to highlight the need to tackle the causes of hunger," the news service notes.