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"Mr President, I would just like to draw the attention of the House to the conference that is taking place in Rome on the global food crisis. We have expressed our concerns in this House about this issue in our recent resolution on food prices.
One of the key issues is the under-investment in agriculture, both in the developed and the developing world. The extent of that problem was brought home to me at a conference in Ireland just last week, when a Missionary Sister of the Holy Rosary, Nora MacNamara, mentioned very clearly that, when she was involved in agriculture many years ago in Africa, there was investment. And then, she said, Africa – or rather agriculture – became a dirty word when looking for funds to support projects in this area. We need to go back to our roots in terms of investing in agriculture.
Can I just say, in the debate on the Treaty of Lisbon in Ireland, that this Treaty will actually enhance the European Union’s role in the developing world and, in my view, will assist us in meeting the food crisis which we are now facing not just in Europe, but globally."@en1
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