A strategic alliance between India, China and FAO supported by other committed countries to eradicate hunger in the world within the next 10 years is simply not a dream, although the greatest achievements of mankind started with dreams. |
Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage. |
As the world takes prudent measures to prepare for a major human pandemic, greater measures must be taken to stop this disease, in its tracks, at its source, in animals. This is very possible. It can be done, |
Developed countries thought that this was going on in Asia, that it was far away and that we were exaggerating the risks of the epidemic. |
If each of the developing regions continues to reduce hunger at the current pace, only South America and the Caribbean will reach the Millennium Development Goal target of cutting the proportion of hungry people by half, |
If, as we think, migratory birds will be one of the ways by which avian influenza is spreading around the world we can expect ... the problem in the Near East, in East and West Africa and naturally in North America and South America, |
If, as we think, migratory birds will be one of the ways by which avian influenza is spreading around the world, we can expect ... the problem in the Near East, in East and West Africa and naturally in North America and South America, |
It's normal to do that and it's good to be ready should this happen. But for the time being we have 140 million birds killed or dying or have died because of avian influenza, with $10 billion of costs ... and it is still there (in Asia) that we are having contamination to human beings. |
Later, security forces surrounded the building and stormed (it), ... They arrested the man. But unfortunately, we have now a situation with two of our staff dead. |
None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people. |
Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope, |
The oceans play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth, |
The question is, what do we do? Do we let things continue or do we change? |
Too much time has gone by and even now we seem to focus more on addressing a possible pandemic which is spread from human to human. |
We also would encourage that resources be allocated to compensate those poor farmers -- and most of them are poor farmers -- who are raising these poultry ... and who, if they are not given the right incentive, will tend to hide what is happening, |