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"Mr President, we are facing a situation now that we have sleepwalked into, because for too long food was too cheap: it was below the cost of production. Three years ago wheat was EUR 90 per tonne, which was below the cost of production. Now it is about EUR 270 per tonne, and it is profitable to produce.
I am not as pessimistic as many speakers here today, because if the market is paying the right price for food, then it will be produced. Therefore, we have to free up that market. Europe can produce food: farmers in Europe have been dying for the opportunity to produce food, but for 20 years they have been told that there was too much food in the world and, therefore, food production had to be reduced. Therefore, we have to use biotechnology to help us increase food production, we have to reduce bureaucracy and, in the mean time, we have to help the poorest in the world through this short-term crisis, because that is what it is. In a country like Zimbabwe in Africa, it is also about good governance: if a madman is controlling the country, it will never be fed."@en1
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