Gawain Kripke is Oxfam America’s policy director focusing on hunger and food issues. At the G8 summit he’s lobbying government officials and talking to journalists to keep the pressure for action.

Newsflash: G8 and other countries commit to $20 billion over three years for agriculture development.  This is $5 billion more than expected and came from “arm twisting” in the last few hours.

We still don’t have details, but this probably means more money – new money – for agriculture development.

This is a victory for President Obama who said, in his press conference today, “There’s no reason Africa can’t feed itself.  They have lots of arable land.”

Although this is still a fraction of the annual additional $25 billion to $40 billion needed, it’s a down payment on the goal of ending hunger.