11 Amendments of Elisabeth JEGGLE related to 2010/2100(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU policy framework to assist developing countries in addressing food security challenges; considers, however, that the world food crisis represents not only, in addition to a humanitarian disaster on an unprecedented scale but also, a major threat to peace and security worldwide, and that, even though credit should be given to the Commission's commitment to seeking out solutions that could lift a billion people out of extreme poverty, the Member States must, as a matter of urgency, raise their awareness at once with a view to making new investments in agriculture and rural development, guaranteeing sufficient levels of world stocks, removing their own barriers to trade, and reducing the debt of the countries most affected;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that with the cuts in spending in the areas of export refunds and storage and the signing of the 'Everything But Arms' agreement EU agricultural policy has taken significant steps forward;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises that political stability is the prerequisite for improved food security, and therefore calls on all the parties involved to show the political will needed to guarantee that stability;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that since less-favoured communities tend to derive their subsistence from agriculture, the development of non-industrial forms of agriculture is necessarily a condition for realising the Millennium Development Goals; believes that subsistence agriculturemall farming in particular can offer a response to the challenge of food self-sufficiency, by means of strengthening the vital role played by women, notably via on-the-spot processing and the widespread use of loans and microcredits, and involving small producers' cooperatives as key players in the definition of effective agricultural and commercial policies;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that price volatility results from the increased unregulated liberalisation of trade in agricultural products is one cause of price volatility, and that it is therefore necessary to create regulatory mechanisms that can ensure a degree of market stability and a more transparent food chain, thus responding to the need to guarantee producers a decent standard of livingimprove market transparency and to consider whether regulatory mechanisms are needed to prevent unfair influence being exerted on the price formation process, with a view to guaranteeing a degree of market stability;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises, in that connection, how important it is that farmers, in addition to meeting their own food needs, should generate the income they need for education and investment;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes it is not desirable to over- emphasise non-foothat careful consideration must be given to the cultivation and uses of agricultural products for non-food purposes (e.g. as biofuels), to avoid a situation of competition between food supplies andin order to ensure that the use of resources to meet the current fashion for renewable energy production does not serve to undermine food supplies;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that the land should be accessible to all and that it is necessary to protect the land, tenancy and land use rights of small farmers in order to avoid a new agricultural colonialism in the form ofprevent further land takeovers, as is nowalready happening to an alarming extent in certain regions of the world, especially Africa;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that a support strategy for developing countries must include a plan for education and training, oriented towards job creation, which will enable young people to study agricultural science with a view to developing better-quality, less costlyspecialised and sustainable forms of production, thus containing the drift from the countryside and reducing poverty;