10 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2010/2112(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that the rights of all the Member States to food sovereignty and food security isare essential to the European Union and that continuous efforts are needed to guarantee it at Community and world levelensure that those rights are guaranteed;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Expresses deep concern at the volatility of food prices; believes that instruments that make it possible to speculate on food products should be banned;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises that food security and food safety are two complementary concepts and stresses that respecting food sovereignty constitutes an important contribution to guarantee food security which goes always hand in hand with the safeguarding of high standards of food safety;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that ensuring a secure food supply, preserving ecosystems and strengthening the economic and social fabric in the primary sector in the various EU countries require that international trade should be geared to the principle of complementarity rather than competition between producers and products;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the need to halt and reverse the decline in the diversity of cultivated plant species and varieties and the erosion of the genetic basis on which human and animal nutrition depends; urges that action be taken to promote the effective use of traditional agricultural varieties specific to certain regions, combating the export-led standardisation of agricultural production and intensive models of agriculture that result from current agricultural and trade policies, of which the CAP is an example, and encouraging sustainable small and medium scale production linked to local and regional markets and consumption;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is dismayed at the conclusions of the 2010 United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), showing that emerging countries have scant capacity to fulfilpointing out that developed countries are a long way from meeting the commitments they gaiven in 2000 as regards meeting theterms of official development goalsassistance;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that seed oligopolies have devastating effects on the sustainability of small-scale farming, fostering dependency on a limited number of corporations for the purchasing of seeds and specialized fertilizers;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out that focus should be placed on supporting and increasing the resilience of organic, small-scale farming systems intended for local and regional consumption, which represent the most effective and environmentally sustainable way of utilizing land;