The promise came Friday on the third and final day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in L'Aquila,Italy.

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So this is a timely opportunity to remind the world how agricultural biodiversity can improve productivity and nutrition,enhance livelihoods, respond to environmental challenges and deliver food security, Last July,the G8 summit in L'Aquila,Italy, issued a statement saying, There is an urgent need for decisive action to free humankind from hunger and poverty.

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Thomas Jordan, an Earth scientist at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, who chaired an international review of earthquake forecasting in Italy in the wake of L'Aquila's quake, says that these calculations must be put into context.

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Stade Francais hammered L'Aquila of Italy 92-7, while Colomiers had a togher time overcoming Roma 14-5.

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As part of a global network developing new disaster recovery protocols for rich countries, he has been studying the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that claimed 309 lives in L'Aquila in central Italy in 2009.

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