10 Amendments of Giovanni LA VIA related to 2010/2100(INI)
Amendment 2 #
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 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, guaranteeabove all in view of the new CAP text, introducing dedicated mechanisms for building sufficient levels ofly large world stocks of basic foodstuffs, removing their own barriers to trade, and reducing the debt of the countries most affected;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Considers, furthermore, that in order to foster a form of subsistence farming that can provide sustainable livelihoods and development, aid should focus primarily on setting up new farming systems with facilities for generating energy from renewable sources such as wind and sun, so as to guarantee the autonomy and self-sufficiency of those systems, even in areas where there is as yet no electricity supply or where energy supply costs would prohibit or hamper the use of advanced technological systems;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that price volatility results from the increased unregulated liberalisation of trade in agricultural products, and that it is necessary tofinancial speculation and the liberalisation of financial markets, and that it is necessary to devise economic instruments and 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 living;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that it is essential for those authorised to take part in agricultural trade to be clearly identified and that a closer look needs to be taken at the mechanisms by which the impact of speculation is passed on to agricultural prices in individual states and on the international market; points out that the scant attention paid to this phenomenon, despite its destructive effect on agricultural markets, is one of the factors that is hampering the development of structural measures to address the food crisis;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it essential to establish more sustainable and less energy-hungry forms of production at world level by channelling aid to developing countries into measures to create new farming capacity that has its own facilities for generating energy from renewable sources and is therefore energy self- sufficient;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes it is not desirable to over- emphasise non-food uses of agricultural products (e.g. biofuels), to avoid a situation of competition between food supplies and the current fashion for renewable energy production, which should be based exclusively on the use of crop residues (post-harvest waste, processing industry waste, animal manure), and under no circumstances on the use of primary agricultural products;
Amendment 80 #
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 rights of small local farmers in order to avoid a new agricultural colonialism in the form of land takeovers, as is now happening to an alarming extent in certain regions of the world, especially Africa;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers it necessary to ensure that local communities and institutions have decision-making and managerial powers as well as negotiating capacities, so as to provide them with the wherewithal to develop local farming and exercise food sovereignty (meaning the ability of local people to choose and apply their own food development models);
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers that investors should be urged to ensure that their efforts to raise agricultural productivity and improve the livelihoods of local people in developing countries are guided by an acknowledgement of local rights, and that a code of conduct should be laid down with this in mind;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Insists on the need to reinforce research on a basis of public funding and to transmit know-how in the field of sustainable agriculture, which, among other things, must be characterised by energy self- sufficiency achieved by building facilities for generating energy from renewable sources such as wind and sun, for use in all agricultural production systems.