19 Amendments of Stefan ECK related to 2015/2277(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses that agricultural development must be based on the local domestic food production to ensure the local population an equal access to food;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Underlines the importance of food sovereignty principle as the right of people to decide upon their own food and agricultural production;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Underlines that at least 80% of agricultural land in world is currently used for livestock feed production instead of food crops production, depriving millions of hungry people in developing countries of sources of nutrition. Emphasizes that instead of proposing growth in food production more attention needs to be given to food distribution, tackling food waste, and reducing intensive livestock farming for the production of meat and dairy;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses that small-scale farmers, which produce around 70% of the food consumed in Africa, play a crucial role in local livelihoods and are indispensable for inclusive agricultural development and stand to benefit most from direct development aid;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Stresses that access to agricultural land and use of traditional farming methods by small-scale farmers are seriously endangered by agribusiness investors and their model of agricultural production based on public-private partnerships;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Emphasizes its deep concern regarding the land grabbing carried out by foreign investors which strikes the local small-scale farmers and contributes to local, regional and national food insecurity and poverty;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the need to shift to sustainable farming, moving away from intensive farming and extractive monocultures that increase input dependency and land degradation, including susceptibility to the effects of climate change;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses that millions of people in Africa, especially children, are suffering from hunger and malnutrition, which are the main causes of human mortality in the continent;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls for a development of new tailor- made agricultural and food policies that respond to the interest of the whole of society aiming to eradicate hunger and malnutrition;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomesIt is concerned that the NAFSN’'s commitment to food security, but is concerned that the means used are based on outdated models of agricultural development; might be beneficial to big businesses rather than to the small-scale family farmers and it is likely to increase poverty and inequality in Africa; stresses that the NAFSN's commitment to food security must first and foremost benefit small-scale farmers;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
Paragraph 6 – indent 2
- monitor land titling and certification schemes to ensure that they protect the interests of smallholder farmers and do not concentrate land ownership or dispossess communities of the resources they rely upon; enact binding national measures against land grabbing, corruption based on land transfer and the use of land for speculative investment,
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 6 – indent 2 a (new)
- consult domestic stakeholders and establish a cooperation with domestic farmers and local communities, local authorities and civil society organisations to tackle food insecurity and improve their livelihoods,
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – indent 5
Paragraph 6 – indent 5
- encourage a wide variety of local and seasonal food crops, including fruit and vegetables, to improve nutrition,
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 2
Paragraph 7 – indent 2
- ensure that EU-based investors respect the rights of local communities and provide highest standards of transparency regarding their investment plans;, along with environmental, social and human rights safeguards,
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 a (new)
- recognise and defend the necessity for participating countries to achieve food security and their right to be as self- sufficient as possible,
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 b (new)
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 b (new)
- encourage participating countries to democratically implement their own agricultural and food policies, priorities and strategies by means of a sustainable agricultural model,
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 c (new)
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 c (new)
- focus their development programmes and policies towards shifting from support for intensive livestock farming to support for sustainable local plant-based agriculture,
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 d (new)
Paragraph 7 – indent 2 d (new)
- eliminate agricultural export subsidies, which are distorting the local markets and destroying livelihoods in developing countries;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on participating governments and investors to enter into a dialogue with civil society on the NAFSN, local communities, and other institutions on the NAFSN, as well as to ensure that agreements concluded are available to the public domain in a transparent manner.