United States, Gates Foundation, Partner Nations Announce Proposed Contributions to Global Food Security Trust Fund

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 22, 2010.  Today, a core group of finance ministers from the United States, Canada, Spain and South Korea, as well as the leadership of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, met at the U.S. Department of the Treasury to announce an initial contribution of $880 million for a new fund to tackle global hunger and poverty and to discuss ways to foster additional contributions from the public and private sectors around the world.