Activities of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2018/2037(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the future of food and farming
Amendments (2)
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Member States to put an end to the goal of an ever more intensified European agriculture and to cease overproduction in the livestock sector through the obligatory introduction of an area-based livestock farming system; consequently urges them to reduce, and ultimately to put an end to, their imports of protein crops from third countries such as Argentina and Brazil, since increased soybean production has led to negative social and environmental impacts; calls therefore for the negotiations on an EU- Mercosur free-trade agreement to be broken off immediately;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need for international recognition of the right to food sovereignty for developing countries; takes the view that acting on that principle means breaking with promoting free trade in agriculture and acknowledging the right of developing countries to adopt asymmetical protectionist measures to safeguard their farmers against speculation on world markets, which is having a devastating impact on rural development;