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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, every six seconds, a child dies of hunger somewhere in the world, and the number of people suffering from malnutrition has just reached the one billion mark.
This very serious situation was condemned at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh in September. At that summit, it was announced that USD 20 billion would be given to support agriculture in developing countries. Incidentally, the same thing was said at the G8 Summit in L’Aquila.
However, at the World Summit on Food Security held on 16 November in Rome, under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the situation was entirely different: snubbed by almost all of the G8 leaders, it did not end in the ratification of the measures previously anticipated. It is therefore hardly surprising that no precise figure appears in the text numbering forty or so articles, not even the USD 44 billion that the FAO says are needed annually in order to sustain the agricultural systems of the poorest countries.
The authors of the final declaration have merely paid lip service to the promise made by the G8 members – that is, those at L’Aquila – on this matter. I therefore deplore these double standards and question whether the G20 will be capable of implementing these measures. As the famous French comedian Pierre Dac used to say, ‘Infinite patience is required to wait eternally for what never comes’."@en1
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