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12 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2015/2277(INI)

Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas large public-private partnerships (PPPs) risk creating dominant positions for large agricultural companies in African agriculture which crowd out local businesses;deleted
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas family farmers and smallholders have been largely excluded from NASFN;deleted
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas different forms of land tenure exist (customary, public and private), but NAFSN almost exclusively refers to land titling to address tenure rights;deleted
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas land titling does not guarantees protection from land expropriation and resettlement, while the evidence suggests that titling schemes often increase inequalitie and it is an important feature for ensuring legal land rights, irrespective of whether they are customary rights or non-customary rights;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Observes that agricultural investment policies tend to encourageat times witness large-scale land acquisitions and focus on export-oriented agriculture that is usually unrelated to local economies; accordingly, questions the ability of mega-PPPs to contribute to poverty reduction and food security;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the participating countries to continue to implement the policy reforms they signed up to under the New Alliance framework, as evidence highlights that some of the most difficult to implement reforms concern exactly the areas which The New Alliance itself is criticised for disregarding, such as land and resource rights, nutrition reforms, gender discrimination, access to financial instruments and insurance policies; calls on the participating countries to also commit to implementing international standards that regulate investment via a human-rights based approach, including the AU’s Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa and its Guiding Principles on Large Scale Based Investments in Africa;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that private companies involved in multilateral development initiatives should be accountable for their actions; calls on the parties to NAFSN, to this end, to set up a strictn accountability mechanism, including an appeal mechanism for local people and communities;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Highlights that the private sector is already driving 90% of jobs in partner countries and the potential for private sector participation is undeniable, as they are ideally suited to providing a sustainable base for mobilising domestic resources, which forms the basis of any aid program; underlines the importance of a transparent regulatory framework that clearly establishes the rights and obligations of all actors, including those of poor farmers and vulnerable groups, without which these rights cannot be successfully protected;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Warns that a pure focus on land titling often leads to insecuritStresses that formal land titling is not a matter of destabilising customary arrangements, but on the contrary, of enforcing them as tenure security, especially for small- scale food producers, women and indigenous people, especially women, whowho, under traditional arrangements lack legal recognition of their land rights and are vulnerable to unfair land deals, expropriation without consent or lack of fair compensation;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Highlights that 1.2 billion people still live either without permanent access to land, or occupying property for which they have no formal claim, no legal titles, no surveys delineating their lands and no legal or financial means of turning property into capital;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Believes that the funding provided by G8 member states to NAFSN contravenes the objective of supporting domestic local companies which cannot compete with multinationals that already benefit from a dominant market position and are often granted business, tariff and tax privileges;deleted
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the EU to withdraw itscontinue to support to NAFSN as long and address the deficiencies outlined above are not duly addressed;
2016/02/24
Committee: DEVE