1 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2008/2153(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that some growing economies might be planning to lease large tracts of land in poorer parts of Africa and Asia for the purposes of growing crops and shipping them back to their markets so as to improve their own food security; believes that, together with the FAO, the EU must takecalls for further research into the question whether this phenomenon seriously aconstitutes a major threat to food security and to effective agriculture policy in host countries; points out that food scarcity in Africa is more the result of such things as war, corruption and failing infrastructure than any current maximum food production capacity; furthermore, suggests that, should third countries prove more successful in the cultivation of African land, host countries could consider negotiating some form of ‘output tithing’, whereby an agreed percentage of the crop harvest is returned to the host country to support its own domestic needs – in addition to the source of income from the leased land itself.