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"Mr President, during my two minutes speaking time 40 people will die of hunger: 3.5 seconds per person; 24 000 people per day; 9 million every year; 400 million in the past 50 years – 3 times the number of people killed in all the world wars of the last century. We talk, we debate, we wring our hands. What we do not do is do something about it. Almost daily in this Parliament we talk about the Lisbon Agenda – competitiveness and growth leading to prosperity in Europe. We are slowly beginning to understand that you can only achieve that with healthy people. However, the low income countries of our world also need their own Lisbon agenda, and they need healthy people too.
Malnutrition means disease and disability. Disease means a reduced and ever less-productive workforce. That means poverty; and poverty means the inability to counter disease and hunger. That is the vicious circle that we have to break. That is what the Millenium Development Goals set out to do. That is what the World Food Summit set out to achieve. That is what the Declaration on Action Against Hunger and Poverty, once again, has declared. Even my own report in the ACP set it out yet again.
We have 30 years of resolutions and 30 years of failure. The key is not food aid but food security. The former for emergencies, but the latter for long-term survival. The key is removing barriers to the imports of produce from low-income countries. The key is to ensure that our rightful concern with the tsunami-affected countries does not strip Africa of crucial aid. The key is to stress to President Bush - while he is here, in Europe - as well as to other Member States that aid is not an opportunity to reduce First World agricultural surpluses, but that he should buy local with aid money. If you cannot buy local, buy regional.
The key is to reinvest debt repayments in indebted nations to meet those millenium goals for hunger and disease. Only then can we give real hope to the 800 million of our fellow human beings who are undernourished. Then we will meet those food production targets, not globally but specifically in high-debt, low-income countries. That is what this motion sets out to achieve."@en1
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