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"en.20121025.26.4-249-000"2
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Today, hunger and food insecurity remain global challenges. While substantial progress has been made on a number of fronts in the past decade, progress on hunger and malnutrition have remained stubbornly slow. In 2010 an estimated 925 million people or 13.6 % of the world population did not have enough to eat, despite decreases in income poverty in several regions. 98 % of the world’s undernourished live in developing countries. 60 % of them are women. Malnutrition is an underlying cause of more than a third of children’s deaths, an estimated 2.6 million a year. Long-term undernutrition has left millions of children suffering from stunting (low height for age), putting them at risk for diminished cognitive and physical development. The number of people worldwide affected by disasters, including as a consequence of global climate change, is on the rise. In this context, the European Parliament is requested to give its consent to the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Food Assistance Convention (FAC). The FAC 2012 is fully in line with the EU’s ongoing efforts to contribute to reducing poverty and eradicating hunger globally. I therefore consider it to be highly justified and appropriate for Parliament to give consent to the arrangement."@en1
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