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"Mr President, just to say I am not going to go over the reasons why we are where we are; the reason the world is suffering or going to suffer from huge food shortages has been well documented here by many people. But it is in many ways going to challenge us in trying to eradicate world hunger by 2015. I think that an enormous challenge lies ahead of us here at the moment.
This is a global problem and it is going to need a global response. We have tackled other problems, and we have tried to tackle other problems like global warming at that level. I believe that the only way we can tackle this problem is through a global response.
As has already been said, there are many reasons – increased population – and, yes, I think it is important that we increase aid immediately. But we have got to look at a more long-term solution, to try and find out exactly why the food market has ended up like this. As I said, many reasons have already been outlined, but I think we have to look for a long-term solution, and I believe that in this Chamber we have the political will.
The one group we should encourage to do more about this is the United Nations. It should convene a conference on the situation at the moment, and we should support it in any way we can. That is the only way to try and do this, because people are saying the cause is perhaps hedge funds, or people speculating, or drought or whatever the case may be, but I think we are going to have to pool all our resources and all our political will globally to try and tackle this problem in the years ahead, because it is a very serious problem, especially for poor people living around the world."@en1
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