3 Amendments of Fiona HALL related to 2008/2153(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the European Union to put agriculture back in the centre of its development agenda, giving specific priority to programmes for agricultural development including clear targets for poverty reduction and feasible objectives, with a particular focus on capacity- building for small-holder farmers and women;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Requests, in particular, immediate additional funding for food aid and humanitarian aid to developing countries with the lowest incomes in the short termand the greatest need in the short term; therefore welcomes the positive initiative of a EUR 1 billion facility for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries; urges however that this food facility and short term food aid be part of a wider, long- term policy of investing in agriculture;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges measures to improve training to enable young people to pursue higher education in agriculture, including training on how to meet EU sanitary and phytosanitary standards, as well as to create job opportunities for agriculture graduates for the main purpose of reducing poverty and migration from rural to urban areas, and indeed,for the purpose of avoiding ‘brain drain’ – migration from developing countries to developed countries;