Factbox: What happened at the last five G8 summits

(Reuters) - Leaders from the world's major industrialized nations meet from Monday in Hokkaido in northern Japan, for a summit at which African development, rising food and oil prices, and climate change will be high on the agenda.

Leaders at the July 7-9 summit will discuss a goal of halving global emissions by 2050 after agreeing last year in Germany to seriously consider the target.

Here are some details on the previous five G8 summits.

* FRANCE - EVIAN - JUNE 2003:

-- The G8 nations focused on the need to press ahead with structural reforms and greater flexibility in rich economies despite resistance, highlighted by public sector strikes, in host country France.

-- They sought to draw a line under bitter transatlantic differences over the Iraq conflict, which half the G8 opposed, saying all now agreed the time had come to reconstruct Iraq.

-- The summit was marred by violent demonstrations.

* UNITED STATES - SEA ISLAND, GEORGIA - JUNE 2004:

-- The summit agreed to extend a debt relief program for poor countries, but fell short of demands for a total write-off of loans owed by African nations to multilateral lending agencies.