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"Mr President, by the time this debate has finished, about 420 people will have died of starvation, with their stomachs blowing up while we have been talking here. Four hundred people is about two jet aircraft crashing while our debate is going on. If two jet aircraft crashed while our debate was going on, it would be world headline news on CNN. Four hundred people dying of malnutrition and starving and dying while we are talking is no news at all.
But, time and time again, the European Union has come to the rescue of many millions of people in similar circumstances. Every ten years or so, we have a massive famine in the Horn of Africa. In countries around Africa we have, at the moment, about 15 million people dying of famine; we have 30% of the children dying of famine. The World Food Programme is dropping biscuits laced with vitamins to prevent people from dying.
We know. This is not a surprise. This keeps happening. You will remember Sir Bob Geldof and what he did some time ago. But what is it that we are not doing? Where do I hear the words ‘irrigation projects’? Where do I hear the words ‘desertification and re-irrigation’? There are people in desert climates, in Israel for example, turning a barren desert into green fields. We have the ability to re-irrigate Africa. We need irrigation projects, sustainable agricultural development and a long-term plan. This short-termism – bringing out a fire hose and putting out this fire, then waiting another few years and putting out that fire – is not enough."@en1
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