6 Amendments of Åsa WESTLUND related to 2011/2047(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
– having regard to the UN Special Rapporteur on right to food, Olivier De Schutters Report entitled ‘Agroecology and the Right to Food’, Report presented at the 16th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council [A/HRC/16/49], 8 March 2011,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the importance of specific support to women in agriculture, since research shows that agriculture with women as managers or landlords has a higher production rate and the benefits of the work are spread more even-handedly; calls for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and for agricultural policies and programmes to be gender-aware; underlines that women must be seen as equal partners in sustainable development for agricultural development and food security;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Underlines that girls’ education and the promotion of gender equality in education are vital to development, and policies and actions that do not address gender disparities miss critical development opportunities; underlines that girl’s education yield some of the highest returns of all development investments, yielding both private and social benefits that accumulate to individuals, families, and society at large by reducing women’s fertility rates, lowering maternal, infant and child mortality rates, protecting against HIV/AIDS infection, increasing women’s labour force participation rates and earnings and creating intergenerational education benefits;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 d (new)
Paragraph 19 d (new)
19d. Welcomes initiatives taken by developing countries to invest in food production rather than in production of biofuels, in order to secure their food supply;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 e (new)
Paragraph 19 e (new)
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Insists that the EU should also address the root causes of food insecurity, including food-price speculation and ‘land grabbing’; reiterates that the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy must take into account the Treaty obligation of PCD; underlines the importance of safeguarding food security for LDCs and net food-importing developing countries, eliminating land grabbing, securing the property rights of smallholders and indigenous farmers and ending seed monopolies and dependency on specialised pesticides;