Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-27-Speech-2-449-125"
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"According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, 925 million people are suffering from hunger. This is an unacceptable figure for the modern world. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and eradicate hunger and improve food security, we need to establish synergies and place the emphasis on a genuinely global strategy on food security. New threats such as price speculation, climate change, degradation of soils and biofuels have contributed to exacerbating this problem even further.
I welcome this Commission communication, and should like to stress, right from the outset, the urgent need to make foodstuffs more available, to increase their nutritional value, and to combat price volatility, on the one hand, and to review European sustainable development strategies at institutional level (particularly coordination of sectoral policies), to increase the share of official development assistance allocated to agriculture, and to respect the commitments made on this issue within international organisations, on the other.
I would stress that the European Union should acknowledge and advocate the need for developing countries to guarantee their food security and their right to be as self-sufficient as possible by promoting sustainable agriculture."@en1
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