Activities of Benoît BITEAU related to 2021/2208(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Addressing food security in developing countries (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on addressing food security in developing countries
Amendments (19)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 c (new)
Citation 23 c (new)
— having regard to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) of 13 September 2007 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas of 28 September 2018,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
— having regard to the 2018 United Nations Security Council resolution 2417 condemning the starving of civilians as a method of warfare as well as the unlawful denial of humanitarian access to civilian populations,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 b (new)
Citation 23 b (new)
— having regard to the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security (2012) and the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (2015),
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas forty percent of wheat and corn exports from Ukraine go to the Middle East and Africa, which already face food insecurity, and whereas further food shortages or price increases could stoke social unrest;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
G c. whereas Russia is a leading exporter of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and its components, and Belarus is a significant exporter of potash-based fertilisers; whereas nitrogen fertiliser prices are heavily dependent on natural gas prices, a product for which Russia holds major market positions; whereas the Farm to Fork Strategy aims to reduce the use of farm inputs and notably to decrease the overall use of chemical pesticides by 50 %, of the most hazardous pesticides by 50 %, and of fertilisers by at least 20 % by 2030;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas according to the FAO, Food Price Index hit high record in February 2022; whereas it states that factors behind food inflation are not limited to crop conditions and export availabilities, but a much bigger push for food price inflation comes from outside food production, particularly the energy, fertilizer and feed sectors;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K d (new)
Recital K d (new)
Kd. whereas nearly one billion people, largely in developing countries, rely on fish and seafood as their primary source of animal protein; whereas small-scale fisheries account for more than 90% of the world’s capture fishers and fish workers;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas food crises can be provoked by speculation on food commodities, in addition to pressures on food supplies caused by demand for biofuels;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
E c. whereas FAO estimates that about 75 % of plant genetic diversity has been lost worldwide; whereas wide-scale genetic erosion increases our vulnerability to climate change and to the appearance of new pests and diseases;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas biodiversity and its associated services – pollination, predators of pests, increased resilience of agroecosystems to erosion, droughts and flooding, soil formation and carbon sinking – are essential to provide sustainable food production;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas industrial agriculture and breeding are driving habitat loss and are creating conditions for viruses, such as Covid - 19, to emerge and spread;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise15 ; whereas the major drivers of this are inequality, conflict, climate variability and climate extremes, environmental degradation, economic shocks, global population growth and failed governance; _________________ 15 Global Report on Food Crises 2021.
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G e (new)
Recital G e (new)
Ge. whereas the 1994 Marrakech Agreement and in particular the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture have contributed to the specialisation of agricultural regions; whereas this specialisation has led to regions with high levels of exports and others that are almost fully dependent on imports: whereas this situation is not resilient to crises, such as wars, and is one of the factors contributing to the current global food instability;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G f (new)
Recital G f (new)
Gf. whereas the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy adopt holistic approaches on agriculture not only to preventing a climatic and biodiversity crisis in Europe, but also to ensuring food security, improving nutrition and public health; whereas it shall serve as a template for investments in the remit of development finance, with the view to harness resilience and food self-sufficiency of developing countries;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas family farms represent over 90 per cent of all farms globally, and produce 80 percent of the world's food in value terms;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas on 20 December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a project through which it declared 2019- 2028 as the United Nations Decade of Family Farming;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)
Recital K c (new)
K c. whereas farmers’ rights were established under the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in 2004, but whereas Intellectual Property rules have often worked in contradiction to them, putting local, traditional and indigenous seed systems at risk;