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"Madam President, I would like to expand on what I said here myself two days ago concerning the tragic food crisis that Africa, above all, has been plunged into, and the clear lack of support from the most industrialised countries, as well as emerging countries, with regard to the problem of global food security.
During the debates that took place at the FAO Summit in Rome, several NGOs accused the food multinationals of trying to grab thousands of hectares of very fertile land belonging to small farmers in the developing world. More than 40 000 hectares have already been acquired in this manner from Ethiopia to Indonesia.
They also condemned the tendency many rich countries have of favouring the use of chemical fertilisers and new technologies in Africa instead of encouraging the sustainable development of agroecology. They castigated agrochemical companies, the use of GMOs and the development of biomass fuels to the detriment of crop growing.
I call on the European Union to invest as a matter of urgency in the implementation of the global partnership project, which will enable actions for combating famine to be better coordinated. It seems to me that subsistence agriculture is undoubtedly the most obvious answer."@en1
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