Our government is surprised that the organization is focused on what appears to be a political agenda rather than on addressing food shortages in the developing world.

8. Calls on Members States and the Commission to take steps to: develop growth and employment-friendly policies (e.g. more effective support to SMEs as well as more effective, better targeted and activating unemployment policies and social assistance schemes); to introduce lifelong learning, special training linked to sectors with labour shortages as well as needs of regional and local job markets and re-training in order to sustain employability of the long-term unemployed, and to promote lifelong up-skilling, vocational education, on-the-job training and paid traineeships with particular emphasis on unemployed young persons and on workers with low skills; aim at making full-time employees able to ...[+++]live from their work;

The right investments will lead not only to better health, but also to longer and more productive lives and lower labour shortages.

The African continent used to feed itself and even export agricultural products to Europe . By contrast, today, 200 million Africans are affected by serious food shortages and Africa has to import food.

Recently, studies have been published showing that merely solving the water problem could even make the situation as a whole worse if it causes population growth to accelerate, which would lead to food shortages.

15. notes that the "oil for food" programme has been effective only in the three governates of north Iraq, where it has been directly managed by the United Nations; thereby concluding that the lack of effective implementation elsewhere in Iraq and the consequential shortages of food and medical supplies have been largely the responsibility of the Iraqi government;