Activities of Enrique GUERRERO SALOM related to 2015/2277(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition PDF (597 KB) DOC (208 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas improvements in nutrition gaps in Africa are central to the sustainable development agenda; whereas poor nutrition derives from a host of interacting processes that link health care, education, sanitation and hygiene, access to resources, women's empowerment and more;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that several CCFs focus on the development of special economic areas with the goal of maximising investments through initiatives ranging from road or energy infrastructure to tax, customs or land tenure regimes; stresses the need also to improve and ensure focus on access to water , scaling up Nutrition-Education and sharing best practice strategies;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Observes that agricultural investment policies tend to encourage 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; recalls that the FAO Tenure Guidelines recommend to secure access to land to allow families to produce food for household consumption and to increase household income; stresses the need to base large-scale land based investment in Africa on these guidelines, ensuring smallholder and local communities' access to land, promoting local SME investment and ensuring that PPPs contribute to food security and to reducing poverty and inequality;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the EU Member States to strive to transform NAFSN into a genuine tool for sustainable development and into an instrument of support for family farming and local economies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), recalling that family farmers and smallholders produce about 80 % of the world’s food and provide over 60 % of employment in SSA;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the inclusion in all CCFs of the 2012 Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT); calls for the effective implementation and systematic assessment of compliance with the VGGT and with the SDG framework within the review process for the CCFs;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on African countries to recognise all legitimate rights to land, including customary tenure rights; and as recommended by the VGGT , calls to promote new laws and/or effectively enforce existing laws that put effective safeguards to large-scale land transactions, such as ceilings on permissible land transactions and ensure regulating how transfers exceeding a certain scale should be approved by national parliaments;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Supports a robust and innovative monitoring mechanism within the CFS; calls on the EU to build a strong position, in consultation with Civil Society organizations, in order to contribute to the global monitoring event during the 43rd CFS session in October 2016, in order to ensure a comprehensive and thorough assessment of the use and application of the Tenure Guidelines;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Recalls the need to make all efforts to achieve improved nutrition, food security and to combat hunger as embedded in the SDG 2; insists on better support for empowering farmers' cooperatives which are key for agriculture development and food security;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges African governments to invest in local food systems in order to boost rural economies and, ensure decent jobs, equitable social safety nets and labour rights, as well as guarantee local people’'s rights of access to and control over resources;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the G8 member states not to support GMO crops in Africa; that have not been endorsed by an international organisation or by the health authorities in every African state;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the EU to withdraw its support to NAFSN as long as theseek and ensure that all NAFSN deficiencies outlined above are not duly addressed;