Activities of Sofia RIBEIRO related to 2015/2277(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Amendments (10)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that over-reliance on imported food should be replaced by establishing resilient domestic food production, given that climates and markets are increasingly volatile, and that emphasis has shifted from increasing the production of agricultural commodities to enabling countries to feed themselves, using this self-sufficiency to reduce hunger among their citizens, ensuring better living conditions and guaranteeing food security; considers that export can be considered only once these aims have been achieved;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports ‘medium and long-term sustainable agricultural, food security, nutrition and rural development programmes to eliminate the root causes of hunger and poverty, including through the progressive realisation of the right to adequate food’, especially by ‘building capacity', involving communities in production, 'focusing on integrated actions addressing policy, institutions and people, with a special emphasis on smallholders and women farmers’1 , empowering them and promoting their right to decent work; ___________ 1 Final declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, FAO, 2009
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the need to shift to sustainable farmingand diversified farming, involving local communities in agricultural activities (farming, processing and marketing), moving away from extractive monocultures that increase input dependency and land degradation, including susceptibility to the effects of climate change;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
- monitor land titling and certification schemes to ensure that they are transparent and non-binding, protect the interests of smallholder farmers, involving them in this process, and do not concentrate land ownership or dispossess communities of the resources they rely upon; enact measures against land grabbing, corruption based on land transfer and the use of land for speculative investment,
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
- usencourage participatory processes to design model contract farming schemes, geared to the needs of local communities, and support cooperatives that strengthen farmers’ bargaining positions, through the sharing of knowledge and European best practice,
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 4
Paragraph 6 – indent 4
- give farmers the option of avoiding input dependency and support farmers’ seed systems in order to maintain and improve agro-biodiversity through local seed banks, exchanges and continuous development of local seed varieties, specifically providing flexibility on seed catalogues so as not to exclude farmers’ varieties, while at the same time guaranteeing the continuation of traditional produce,
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 7
Paragraph 6 – indent 7
- ensure that financial, tax or administrative reforms do not exempt investors from making a fair contribution to the tax base of participating countries or give an unfair advantage to investors over smallholders. Given the aims of the Alliance, participating private companies should be called upon to draw up an ambitious social responsibility programme;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 2
Paragraph 7 – indent 2
- ensure that EU-based investors respect, and encourage other partners in the Alliance to respect, the rights of local communities and provide transparency regarding their investment plans;
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the EU to reassess the food aid programmes in which it is involved, with a view to ensuring that they are appropriate and effective and achieve their appointed aims, and to determine whether it should pursue projects on s smaller scale, but with operations taking place more at a local or regional level, thus guaranteeing the success of the programmes.
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Urges the EU to consider whether it should broaden its involvement in this programme, or establish a similar programme, in order to cover countries affected by mass migration caused by humanitarian situations, such as food shortages, the object being to provide nourishing food and enable territory to be occupied and land cultivated, thereby bringing about subsistence farming and keeping populations in the countries concerned.