NON-EU farmers in poor countries are to get €760m extra from the EU to help them increase production — but not from unused Common Agriculture Policy spending, as had first been proposed last July.

G8 leader Germany is pledging to make Africa a central point of next month’s summit and is calling for more aid, further debt relief and improved financial oversight.

A deal to erase billions of dollars of debt for poor countries cleared an important hurdle, winning the endorsement of the International Monetary Fund’s steering committee.