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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.Jacques Diouf
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.
Jacques Diouf
None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.
Jacques Diouf
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.
Jacques Diouf
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,
Jacques Diouf
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