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, 9 Mar 2010
By Rosie Collyer
For multinational corporations, corporate social responsibility has become a key to smooth operations, especially in the developing world. But do so-called responsible business models actually make a difference in Africa?
Click the play button to listen to this podcast (18mins 22secs).
The aid fund for Africa had risen from $15 to 20 billion over three years after the working sessions with the African countries, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced at the press conference concluding the L’Aquila G8 Summit. Food security and aid for the African countries had been the pivotal topics on the third and final day of the Summit, which had mustered 40 delegations around the same table.
In this radio interview, Professor Jules Pretty of the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, England, addresses what the new G8 initiative and billions of dollars of funding can do to support small scale farming in Africa.
