Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations—World Food Day (WFD)—is 16 October;

(b)

the food and economic crises have seen a substantial increase in global poverty with the number of undernourished people having now reached 1 billion for the first time;

(c)

an estimated 100 million people have fallen into poverty in the last two years; and

(d)

longer term population and income projections indicate global food production needs to increase more than 40 per cent by 2030 and 70 per cent by 2050 to feed an extra 80 million people every year;

(2)

acknowledges:

(a)

the objectives of WFD; and

(b)

that the outcomes from the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting will have significant implications for global food security; and

(3)

supports:

(a)

policies, projects and programs that deliver long term solutions for food security as a means of reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development; and

(b)

the Australian Government’s continued commitment to comprehensive global action in addressing the underlying causes of global food insecurity.

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