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"en.20121025.26.4-253-250"2
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Today, global food security and hunger represent a serious challenge. In 2010, approximately 925 million people (13.6% of the world’s population) did not have enough food to eat. Despite advances made in reducing income poverty around the world, 98% of undernourished people live in developing countries. Child malnutrition runs rampant as well, affecting millions of children worldwide every year. The EU is committed to fighting poverty and eradicating hunger on a global scale. The Food Aid Convention 2012 will greatly aid in the construction of an international, legally binding framework to define and provide the necessary instruments for the delivery of food aid to developing countries. I voted in favour of this recommendation, because I believe that FAC 2012 will streamline and improve food aid policy and ensure that the food and nutrition needs of the most critical populations will be met effectively. FAC 2012 will increase transparency of food assistance and humanitarian programmes and provide for more effective donor coordination. We in the EU have a responsibility to assist our less fortunate counterparts in developing countries – FAC 2012 will go a long way towards helping us to achieve that goal."@en1
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