Editing G8 (section)

=== Focus of G8 ===
After the [[2008 financial crisis]], the [[G20]] replaced the G8 as the world's main international economic council.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/24/us.g.twenty.summit/index.html |title=Officials: G-20 to supplant G-8 as international economic council |publisher=CNN |date=25 September 2009 |access-date=25 September 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1099172/G20-to-replace-the-G8 |title=G20 to replace the G8 |publisher=SBS |date=26 September 2009 |access-date=26 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927054722/http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1099172/G20-to-replace-the-G8 |archive-date=27 September 2009}}</ref> Nevertheless, the G8 retained its relevance as a "steering group for the [[Western world |West]]",<ref name="cfr">{{cite web |url=http://www.cfr.org/global-governance/group-eight-g8-industrialized-nations/p10647 |title=The Group of Eight (G8) Industrialized Nations |publisher=CFR |access-date=21 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115103825/http://www.cfr.org/global-governance/group-eight-g8-industrialized-nations/p10647 |archive-date=15 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> with special significance appointed to Japan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/02/12/japan-and-the-g20-ambivalence-and-the-china-factor/ |title=Japan and the G20: Ambivalence and the China factor |date=11 February 2011}}</ref> The [[40th G7 summit |40th summit]] was the first time the European Union was able to host and chair a summit.<ref name="EU info">Until recently, the EU had the ''privileges and obligations'' of a membership that did not host or chair summits. It was represented by the Commission and Council presidents. {{cite web |url=http://www.deljpn.ec.europa.eu/union/showpage_en_union.external.g8.php |title=EU and the G8 |access-date=25 September 2007 |publisher=[[European Commission]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070226165606/http://www.deljpn.ec.europa.eu/union/showpage_en_union.external.g8.php |archive-date=26 February 2007 }}</ref>

A major focus of the G8 since 2009 has been the global [[food security|supply of food]].<ref name="Reuters 5May">{{cite news |title=Cash-strapped G8 looks to private sector in hunger fight |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/g8-food-idUSL1E8GHE3520120518 |access-date=18 May 2012 |newspaper=[[Reuters]] |date=18 May 2012}}</ref> At the 2009 [[L'Aquila]] summit, the G8's members promised to contribute $22 billion to the issue. By 2015, 93% of funds had been disbursed to projects like sustainable agriculture development and adequate emergency food aid assistance.<ref name="The Chicago Council on Global Affairs 15Mar">{{cite news |last=DoCampo |first=Isabel |title=A Food-Secure Future: G7 and G20 Action on Agriculture and Food |url=https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/blog/global-food-thought/food-secure-future-g7-and-g20-action-agriculture-and-food |access-date=16 April 2018 |newspaper=The Chicago Council on Global Affairs |date=15 March 2017 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124062251/https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/blog/global-food-thought/food-secure-future-g7-and-g20-action-agriculture-and-food |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://iif.un.org/content/laquila-food-security-initiative |title=L'Aquila Food Security Initiative {{!}} Tracking Support for the MDGS |website=iif.un.org |access-date=6 February 2019 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124124325/https://iif.un.org/content/laquila-food-security-initiative |url-status=dead}}</ref>

At the 2012 summit, [[President Barack Obama]] asked G8 leaders to adopt the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition initiative to {{qi|help the rural poor produce more food and sell it in thriving local and regional markets as well [[Globalization|as on the global market]]}}.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tandon |first=Shaun |title=Obama turns to private sector to feed world's poor |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jUyBu2GrB9ESl2EeXWyJQWwR0f-g?docId=CNG.3fbd5b32739e3209c58578b8a8480023.521 |access-date=18 May 2012 |newspaper=Agence France-Presse |date=18 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131045725/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jUyBu2GrB9ESl2EeXWyJQWwR0f-g?docId=CNG.3fbd5b32739e3209c58578b8a8480023.521 |archive-date=31 January 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Patrick |first=Stewart M. |title=Why This Year's G8 Summit Matters |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/why-this-years-g8-summit-matters/257249/ |access-date=18 May 2012 |newspaper=The Atlantic |date=16 May 2012}}</ref> [[Ghana]] became one of the first six African countries to sign up to the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=G8 Cooperation framework to support The "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" in Ghana |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/208055/new-alliance-progress-report-coop-framework-ghana.pdf |publisher=Group of Eight Camp David}}</ref> There was, however, almost no knowledge of the G8 initiative among some [[Stakeholder analysis|stakeholders]], including farmers, academics and agricultural campaign groups. Confusion surrounding the plans was made worse, critics say, by "a dizzying array of regional and national agriculture programmes that are inaccessible to ordinary people".<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 February 2014 |title=Ghana hopes G8 New Alliance will end long history of food insecurity |url=http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/18/ghana-g8-new-alliance-food-insecurity |access-date=26 June 2020 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>