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The Commission estimates that 80 million people in the EU are at risk of poverty and that, due to the financial and economic crisis and soaring food prices, an increasing number of people are being put at risk of food poverty. The scheme for food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union, set up in 1987 under the common agricultural policy, currently provides food aid for 13 million people suffering from poverty in 19 Member States and has distribution chains involving some 240 food banks and charities. The scheme has increasingly relied on market purchases as a consequence of the common agricultural policy pursued by the EU, which has led to reduced levels of intervention stocks, the traditional source of supplies for the scheme. The proposal for 2012 includes a sudden reduction in funding from EUR 500 million in 2011 to EUR 113 million in 2012, which will have a major impact on the EU’s most vulnerable citizens. I welcome the call to develop a transitional solution for the remaining years of the funding period (2012 and 2013) so as to avoid an immediate and sharp cutback in food aid as a result of the reduction in funding from EUR 500 million to EUR 113 million and ensure that people dependent on food aid do not suffer from food poverty."@en1
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