10 Amendments of Maria HEUBUCH related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the EU’s and its Member States’ commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); stresses that the CAP reform should contribute to building a new European food system in line with the transformative nature of Agenda 2030 and the Paris Climate Agreement; to this end, believes that a paradigm shift is needed, which should evolve from a “green revolution” to an “agro-ecological approach”, in line with the conclusions of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) and the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. This implies the recognition of the multifunctionality of agriculture and a rapid shift from monoculture cropping based on the intensive use of chemical inputs towards a diversified and sustainable agriculture, based on agro- ecological farming practises, strenghtening local food systems and small-scale farming;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for another chapter in the CAP post-2020 legislation regarding its responsibility in development policy issuNotes that although the 2014-2020 CAP has made some progress towards Policy Coherence for Development, the ban of export subsidies leave unchanged economic distortions resulting from other direct or indirect subsidies, which enable the EU agricultural sector to export agricultural commodities below their average production costs; against this background, calls for PCD to be defined as an objective and to be mainstreamed throughout the CAP post-2020 legislation; in particular, calls on the Commission to conduct systematically ex-ante and ex- post impact assessment of the CAP’s external effects and to develop a methodological framework for monitoring and evaluating the CAP’s effects on the agricultural production sector in developing countries, affordability and availability of food; suggests using this data for an alert mechanism that would signal negative effects of the CAP on livelihoods of small-scale farmers, in particular women farmers, in developing countries;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls the recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food in its report "Agroecolgy and the Right to Food” (2011), which shows that agroecology can double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change, biodiversity loss and alleviating rural poverty; urges the EU and its Member States to implement the commitment made in the European Consensus for Development to support agroecology , including through the agriculture investment window of the EIP/EFSD;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that the CAP must respect the “do no harm” principle, be coherent with other EU policies and international obligations in the field of development, but also human rights, environment, climate, animal rights, nature protection; notes further that it is inefficient in terms of EU budget spending to generate negative externalities and then to pay for the costs these externalities generate;
Amendment 29 #
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 themNotes with concern that EU dependence on imported animal feed, particularly soy, has contributed to the growing demand for land abroad, leading to deforestation, the displacement of communities and an expansion of intoxication through the cultivation of pesticide-intensive genetically modified soy in South America; in particular, recalls that soy expansion accounted for nearly half of all forest destruction embodied in EU crop imports and 19% of all global deforestation due to agriculture between 1990 and 2008[1]; urges the Member States to cease overproduction in the livestock sector through the obligatory introduction of an area-based livestock farming system and matching EU-supply with EU-demand of animal products; consequently, calls on the EU to introduce cross-compliance criteria for animal feed in the CAP reform with the objective to reduce, and ultimately to put an end to, their imports of protein crops from third countries such as Argentina and Brazil, sincwhile increased soybean production has led to negative social and environmental impacts;entivising and enhancing domestic protein crop production, and reducing EU consumption level of meat, dairy and eggs; [1] Final report of European Commission Study “The impact of EU consumption on deforestation: Comprehensive analysis of the impact of EU consumption on deforestation” (2013), pp. 21 - 22.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls therefore for crop rotation with leguminous components on all applicable arable land, and for implementation of an EU-wide protein strategy aimed to decrease import dependency from developing countries; notes that the scale of livestock production in the EU at current levels is not sustainable, notes that the EU should consider expanding grass- and pasture- based grazing for ruminants, and question current levels of over-production in meat and dairy sectors that supress prices and impact LDC markets and local food security;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls for a forward looking CAP that effectively matches supply to EU demand using supply side management tools; calls for obligatory reductions in milk volumes when there is a surplus; notes that CAP measures and supports for increasing production capacities of sectors that are already overproducing should be discontinued;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a shift away from indirect und untargeted subsidies such as area payments; asks for subsides to be disbursed only if they contribute to public goods such as local jobs, biological diversity, animal welfare, clean air and water and healthy, living soils; stresses the fact that EU agricultural exports, such as dairy and tomato products, poultry and cereals, can be a veritable danger to the domestic markets in developing countries; recalls in this context the fact that the market-distorting effects ofnotes with concern that the reintroduction of coupled support in the CAP 2014-2020, for example for dairy products, and the conscious overproduction after the abolition of the milk quotas in 2015 cannot be reduced by finding so-called ‘ have market distorting effects both internally and on third countries; recalls that the abolition of the milk quotas in 2015, with the expectations of “new market outlets’ for European agricultural products in developing countries, because this will only aggravate the situation of farmers in these countriehas aggravated overproduction structurally, resulting in lower prices, thereby affecting the development of the dairy sector in Europe as well as in developing countries, particularly in West Africa, where exports of those subsidised dairy products is putting at risk local investments in smallholder dairy supply chain; calls on the EU to support developing countries' demands to protect their food production and to protect their population from the potentially destructive effects of cheap imports;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that we have to put an end to the myth that European agriculture, through intensification under the common agricultural policy, has to assume responsibility for feeding a growing world populationNotes with concern that the European agro- and food processing industry depends heavily on low-cost imports of soy, sugar cane and palm oil for its own competitiveness and for its position as an export champion; henceforth, questions the rationale of the EU to promote an export-led agricultural model to feed the world; recalls that hunger and malnutrition in developing countries are mainly related to a lack of purchasing power and/or inability of rural poor to be self-sufficient; therefore, underlines that Europe should contribute to global food security and the achievement of SDG 2 through allowing and supporting developing countries to increase and diversify their own production to become more food secure, rather than rising EU agricultural exports to developing countries.