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"en.20110927.26.2-450-000"2
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"Food uncertainty is hampering the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and in the least developed countries. At the summit held in September 2010, it was concluded that the progress achieved in hunger reduction is not sufficient. For the time being, neither the European institutions nor the Member States are putting the elimination of poverty, hunger and malnutrition at the top of their agendas or political strategies, despite there being a determination to promote man’s right to nutrition. I believe that it is essential that the EU supports the UN incentive regarding the basic social protection level, which could help meet the basic food needs of the poor. In the context of the renewed food security debate, the European Commission adopted on 31 March 2010 a new food security communication, which should represent the platform of a joint framework of measures to be adopted by the EU and its Member States.
Basic services (the availability of and access to public services) and social security payments (made to poor and vulnerable persons with the aim of enhancing food security and nutrition) are the two essential elements which help to implement the approach based on human rights. It is important that trade agreements between the EU and third countries include the principles of guaranteeing the right to nutrition. To ensure that such a right becomes reality, it will be necessary to consider the assessment of the effect of human rights on the trade, development and foreign policy of the Union."@en1
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