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"The report published to mark World Food Day indicates that one in six people are suffering from hunger and the number of undernourished people in the world has passed the 1-billion mark, while the number of people blighted by famine has risen by 100 million in just one year.
During this entire period, the World Food Programme has been facing a 50% drop in international donations compared with 2008, which is having a serious impact on the volume of food aid being supplied to poor countries.
The European Union is the leading campaigner against global famine. Its position was strengthened by the commitment made at the G8 summit in L’Aquila to provide EUR 2 billion, which is in addition to the EUR 1 billion Food Facility. This is a large sum, but is still far from what would be required to meet the objective set by the UN, which is to halve the number of people suffering from endemic hunger.
A much broader political effort is required to mobilise the resources of all the major industrialised powers in the world. I believe that a Marshall Plan is an absolute necessity with a much more specific and tangible objective, which is to help the billion of our fellow human beings suffering from hunger rise above the subsistence threshold."@en1
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