Activities of Karsten LUCKE related to 2022/2183(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the objective of ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture
Amendments (44)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. having regard to Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which reaffirms the PCD principle,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 d (new)
Paragraph -1 d (new)
-1d. having regard to the Joint Statement by the Council and the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, Parliament and the Commission on “The New European Consensus on Development ‘Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future’” (2017/C210/01),
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1 a. having regard to Article 27 §3 b) of the WTO-Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS),
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)
Paragraph -1 c (new)
-1c. having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/ 1999 (“European Climate Law”),
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 e (new)
Paragraph -1 e (new)
-1e. having regard to the DEVE report on Policy Coherence for Development (2021/2164(INI)),
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 f (new)
Paragraph -1 f (new)
-1f. having regard to the Commission communication of 22 June 2022 on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115(COM(2022)305),
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 g (new)
Paragraph -1 g (new)
-1g. having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 entitled “A Farm to Fork Strategy - for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system” (COM(2020)381),
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 h (new)
Paragraph -1 h (new)
-1h. having regard to the Commission communication of 11 December 2019 entitled “The European Green Deal” (COM(2019)640),
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 i (new)
Paragraph -1 i (new)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 j (new)
Paragraph -1 j (new)
-1j. having regard to the UN Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, entitled “Right to food”, of 24 December 2020 (A/HRC/46/33),
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 k (new)
Paragraph -1 k (new)
-1k. having regard to the UN Resolution on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (A/HRC/RES/ 39/12) of 28 September 2018,
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 m (new)
Paragraph -1 m (new)
-1m. having regard to the UN Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/61/295)of 2 October 2007,
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 l (new)
Paragraph -1 l (new)
-1l. having regard to the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO (2009),
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 n (new)
Paragraph -1 n (new)
-1n. having regard to the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, an international legal instrument for “the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources”,
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 p (new)
Paragraph -1 p (new)
-1p. whereas the Farm to Fork Strategy and the Green Deal address environmental challenges that hit developing countries particularly hard; whereas biodiversity and resilient ecosystems are essential to sustainable development, especially in the context of food and nutrition security; whereas agroecological principles are in line with biodiversity conservation, food autonomy and healthy nutrition;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 o (new)
Paragraph -1 o (new)
-1o. whereas the principle of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD), as enshrined in Article208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is a commitment to take development cooperation objectives in all EU policies, including agricultural policy and trade, into account, whereas PCD is strongly connected to a “do not harm” approach;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 q (new)
Paragraph -1 q (new)
-1q. whereas biodiversity has been decreasing during the last decades and nutrition is becoming more homogenized around a small number of crops; whereas biodiversity of crops is important as this allows individual farmers to adapt their agricultural planning to climate conditions and make food systems naturally more resilient against climate change, pests and pathogens; whereas at the same time this nature-based approach contributes to enhancing biodiversity;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 r (new)
Paragraph -1 r (new)
-1r. whereas recent crises have shown that global supply chains can be seriously disrupted; whereas developing countries are much more susceptible to food insecurity than EU countries, particularly when depending on food imports;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 s (new)
Paragraph -1 s (new)
-1s. whereas in particular Africa’s food production system is dominated by smallholder farmers and farmer-led production; whereas according to the World Food Programme (WFP), smallholder farmers are the primary food producers in Southern Africa, contributing to up to 90 percent of food production;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 t (new)
Paragraph -1 t (new)
-1t. whereas according to the East African Community (EAC), post-harvest losses in food products are in the range of 30 percent in cereals, 50 percent in roots and tubers and up to70 percent in fruits and vegetables;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls that malnutrition represents a lifelong burden for individuals and societies as it prevents children from reaching their full potential, thus curtailing human and national economic development;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. In the light of the UN Report A/HRC/49/43, points out that the right to food is inherently tied to farmers’ seed systems and their indivisible right to freely save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seeds, and calls to the EU to support these farmers’ rights;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Welcomes that the EU is acting as a global advocate of vulnerable populations and takes the calls from civil society organisations and human rights defenders seriously; underlines that the EU can influence, amongst others, trade agreement negotiations, e. g, farmers' rights to participation in law, policies and practices or land use rights; calls on the EU in this regard to strongly support the prevention of land grabbing, especially when EU action could contribute to aggravating this problem;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the EU to refrain from urging third countries to become a party of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plans (UPOV Convention); recalls that being party of UPOV is not a WTO requirement, and that WTO allows the adoption of other protective mechanisms; underlines that UPOV contradicts international commitments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and deprives farmers of their acknowledged rights to save, use and exchange seeds;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the impact of climate change, the COVID-19 crisis and conflicts on food security in developing countries; draws attention to the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which are exacerbating global food insecurity; emphasises the need for local food production and for strengthening local and regional and most notably intra- African food trade; calls on the EU to supporting local, regional and country initiatives in developing countries, that are striving for food autonomy;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Recalls that recent reports have found that food systems are contributing to up to one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, up to 80 per cent of biodiversity loss and use up to 70 per cent of freshwater; underlines, however, that sustainable food production systems should be recognised as an essential solution to these existing challenges and that it is possible to feed a growing global population while protecting our planet;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned by the fact that one in three people worldwide still do not have access to adequate foodsufficient food and healthy nutrition; deplores the fact that in 2022, according to the World Food Programme, acute food insecurity is affecting a record 349 million people; stresses that it is children and women who are the most vulnerable to food insecurity;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Emphasises the importance of rural transformation and strengthening local, regional and transparent value chains in order to create sustainable jobs, avoid human rights violations and mitigate climate change; stresses the need to support young people and women, in particular through training, access to credit and access to markets; calls for their involvement in formulating agricultural policies and for support for collective action through small producer organisations;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 j (new)
Paragraph 3 j (new)
3j. Recalls that all food security requires physical, but also in terms of affordability, access to water; recalls that access to high-quality water for ensuring food security starts with the production and ends on the consumers' plate;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that avoiding food crises requires a systemic transformation in the direction of socially just food systems;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of ensuring cPolicy Coherence among all EU policies in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the EU’s commitment to global food securityof Development with view to food security in particular in agricultural policy and trade, in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the EU’s commitment to global food security; reminds that ensuring food security in the EU should in no way harm EU’s commitment to develop agricultural markets and value chains in partner countries as anchored in the European Consensus on Development;
Amendment 115 #
3h. Calls on the Commission to present an ambitious proposal for an EU Sustainable Food System Framework law establishing a clear and measurable path towards food system sustainability in the EU; ensuring coherence among all existing and future food-related policies, including the EU’s external and trade policies, according to the PCD principle; shifting consumption towards sustainable and healthy diets, including support for a higher consumption of legumes, vegetable and fruits; promoting favourable food environments with increased affordability and availability of sustainable and healthy food, while ensuring that prices paid for sustainable production and incomes earned by farmers are fair; strengthening the responsibility and engagement of large food businesses in the transition towards sustainability;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 i (new)
Paragraph 3 i (new)
3i. Emphasises the latest United Nations State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report’s findings that agricultural subsidies often target the production of staple foods, dairy and other animal source foods, while fruits and vegetables are relatively less supported; notes that a repurposing of EU farm subsidies to incentivise more the production of foods contributing to healthy sustainable diets would have an impact on the affordability of such diets, hence on food security;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a new Regulation on the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products, including EU wide targets to reduce by 50% the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030 and by 50% the use of the most hazardous pesticides, in line with the EU’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies; highlights that this proposal should establish a long-term (post-2030) vision and clear pathways out of chemical pesticide dependency of European agriculture; notes that reducing the EU pesticide dependency is a driver of food security and self- sufficiency;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. In the light of the Green Deal and Farm to Fork, urges the EU to promoting the global phasing out of highly hazardous pesticides and ensuring that hazardous pesticides banned in the EU are not produced for export, as well as preventing residues of banned pesticides being tolerated in food on the EU market;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the commitment by the EU and its Member States to allocate EUR 7.7 billion for global food security over the period 2021-2024; stresses, however, that food insecurity is a growing problem that needs more attention as well in terms of development cooperation and Global Gateway initiatives as in terms of humanitarian aid; underlines the need for European aid to reach the most vulnerable populations as quickly as possible and to adapt to the context of multidimensional crises;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that our current food systems exacerbate socio-economic and gender inequalities that are preventing access to a healthy nutrition;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that evidence shows that investments in the smallholder sector and regional structures yield the best returns in terms of poverty reduction and growth, consequently highlighting the need to focus the efforts on enhancing incomes of smallholder farmers, and especially women smallholder, and to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on Team Europe to fund programmes that take the needs of farmers’ seed systems or informal seed systems into account and support seed banks or seed libraries that allow collecting, conserving and sharing of native seeds, landraces and farmers’ varieties with farmers and gardeners and furthermore, to fund measures such as training focussing on multi-cropping, integrated land use planning, water conservation and protection of the natural resource base;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Reminds that harvest loss prevention could significantly contribute to food security; calls on Team Europe to support preventive measures from low cost storage solutions such as hermetic bags and training in post harvest handling to Global Gateway infrastructure programmes, such as market infrastructure, cooling systems and roads, but also online farmers markets, in order to enhance in particular smallholder farmer’s resilience;
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls for a focus on efforts in the area of agriculture to safeguard developing countries’ right to food sovereignty and on increasing their food security as a priority, as well as enhancing their capacity to meet the nutritional requirements of their populations;
Amendment 166 #
3b. Stresses the importance of the protection and promotion of the right of local communities to access and control natural resources such as land and water; deplores the fact that land grabbing is rife in many countries; points out that it is a practice that undermines food sovereignty and endangers rural communities; stresses the importance of launching an inclusive process with the aim of guaranteeing the effective participation of civil society organisations and local communities in the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and actions related to land grabbing; calls for the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) to be observed in all projects that promote the protection of land rights, including in trade, and also for measures to ensure that projects do not endanger the land rights of small-scale farmers;