WASHINGTON—Buffeted by the euro zone crisis and distracted by political problems at home, the leaders of the world’s industrial powers are turning to the private sector to help fight hunger and malnutrition for up to a billion people beset by shortages, droughts and rising food prices. G8 and NATO meetings U.S. President Barack Obama will announce a new public-private partnership program on Friday, seeking to spur this weekend’s summit of the wealthy G8 to focus on market methods to boost production, particularly among hardscrabble small-scale farmers in Africa who may hold the key to improved world food supplies. This year’s meeting of the G8 — the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia — will focus on the economic headaches plaguing the ...
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