Brussels, 28/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Parliament calls on the EU and its member states to place the eradication of poverty, hunger and malnutrition at the top of their agenda and to define a clear and coherent political framework to help developing countries raise the challenges relating to food supply security. Approving their rapporteur, Gabriele Zimmer (GUE/NGL, Germany), MEPs warn that the global food crisis is not only an unprecedented humanitarian disaster but also a major threat to peace and security in the world. The EU's strategic framework for food and nutritional security must, they say, focus on human rights to ensure sustainable agriculture, on the fight against the price volatility of foodstuffs and the uncontrolled acquisition of land, and on the coherency of EU development policies, based on the results of an impact assessment analysis on global food security. The resolution adopted in this respect on 27 September is based on an alarming statement of fact: 925 million people in the world suffered from hunger in 2010, this being unacceptable given Millennium Development Goal No 1. Although this figure is down compared to that for 2009 (1.023 billion), it is still higher than the number of under-nourished people in 2008 (around 815 million), the global food crisis year. (AN/transl.jl)