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Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, said the Millennium Development Goals on reducing hunger would not be met. The World Food Report said that world agriculture as it was now could easily feed some 12 billion, and therefore the deaths from malnutrition were avoidable. A child who died from malnutrition was therefore murdered. However, there were positive elements and progress in the world, such as in Brazil where the battle against hunger had been won; and in France, where a tax levy on air tickets had been instituted to combat HIV/AIDS and hunger. He held the World Trade Organization responsible for massive malnutrition through its decisions.