Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet reported today at the inauguration of the Food Summit organized by FAO in Rome, Italy, world leaders could have fought hunger in the world if they had half the budget for granted to save the banks from the global financial crisis.
After these peaks we have fulfilled promises more hungry than anything else. It should also take into account the fact that U.S. President Barack Obama does not seem to confirm their attendance at the event, along with Berlusconni controversial, which has not yet confirmed their presence.
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In the last summit in Italy in July this year, the G8 promised among other things, "acting with the scale and urgency needed to achieve a sustainable global food security, reducing obstacles in the negotiations of the World Trade Organization, and mobilizing U.S. $ 20,000 million over the next three years for sustainable agriculture in developing countries.
But diplomatic sources told the Reuters news agency that less than a quarter that number will actually be effective.
"The statement is just a rehash of old platitudes. He said that hunger was reduced by half by 2015 but does not commit new resources to achieve this and provides no way to hold governments to account. Unfortunately, the poor eat promises, "said Francisco Sarmento, food rights coordinator at ActionAid.
Just look at the little interest of governments, political organizations, companies and other organizmos, reducing hunger, which we fully there in 2009 with no signs of improvement, when on the contrary the situation is increasingly worse.
Although the 20,000 million of dollars in bills materialize, would be insufficient, according to FAO. The general director of that agency, Jacques Diouf said this week that they need 44,000 million dollars annually in official development assistance for investment in agriculture and rural infrastructure, adding that developing countries themselves should allocate more of their budgets to these areas.
This week, the FAO launched an online petition (http://www.1billionhungry.org/home/es/), which claims priority to this issue, and Diouf urged an "international day of strike Hunger "this weekend in solidarity with the undernourished.
Her message combines the optimism of "eradicating hunger is not a pipe dream" - as shown by countries like Brazil, Nigeria and 29 other states that have made significant progress - with warnings about the price of inaction.
"One in six people suffer the pain of hunger every six seconds a child dies of hunger, and this enormous tragedy not just a moral outrage and an economic absurdity, but also poses a serious threat to our peace and security group, "Diouf said at a news conference Wednesday.
Also, remember that "hungry people are angry people also rightly, a serious source potential for conflict and forced migration, as we saw in 2007 and 2008, when riots broke out in 22 countries in all continents due to the rapid increase in food prices, added.
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