2021/2208(INI) Addressing food security in developing countries
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Procedure completed
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | DEVE |
KEMPA Beata ( ECR)
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MORTLER Marlene ( EPP),
NOICHL Maria ( S&D),
RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS María Soraya ( Renew),
BITEAU Benoît ( Verts/ALE),
BILDE Dominique ( ID),
URBÁN CRESPO Miguel ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | AGRI |
FLANAGAN Luke Ming ( GUE/NGL)
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Marc TARABELLA ( S&D),
Hilde VAUTMANS ( RE),
Bert-Jan RUISSEN ( ECR),
Elena LIZZI ( ID),
Claude GRUFFAT ( Verts/ALE),
Colm MARKEY ( PPE)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54
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RoP 54Subjects
Events
2022/11/08
EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2022/07/06
EP - Results of vote in Parliament
Documents
2022/07/06
EP - Decision by Parliament
Details
The European Parliament adopted by 602 votes to 15, with 20 abstentions, a resolution on addressing food security in developing countries.
Parliament recalled that hunger and food insecurity are again increasing across the world (around 660 million people might continue to face hunger by 2030) and that it is highly unlikely that the nutritional targets will be met by 2025 or that hunger will be eradicated by 2030 which is the ambition by SDG2 ‘ Zero Hunger ’.
Recalling that the right to food is a human right, Parliament called on the EU to safeguard developing countries' right to food and self-sufficiency as a means of achieving nutritional security, poverty reduction and inclusive, sustainable and fair global supply chains and more sustainable food systems, as well as supporting local and regional markets, with particular attention to women and family farming.
Members believe that Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine has further destabilised already fragile agricultural markets , worsened the already serious situation caused by COVID-19 and put additional pressure on the ongoing food crises and global food security, pushing international food and feed prices well above their already high levels. This crisis risks increasing food insecurity, poverty and instability in many developing countries that are heavily dependent on Ukrainian and Russian wheat imports, as 40% of Ukraine's wheat and maize exports go to the Middle East and Africa.
The resolution stressed that governments should avoid export bans in this context and identify measures to support the restructuring of agricultural markets by increasing their transparency and establishing new rules to prevent excessive financial speculation from fuelling food price volatility, which, especially in a context of war, can artificially inflate wholesale prices and lead to market volatility, with particular repercussions on developing countries and the most vulnerable populations.
Parliament called on the EU to prioritise food and sustainable agriculture in its international development programming and to ensure access to funding for local communities and organisations. Given the great diversity of food systems, measures should be country-driven, needs-based and context-specific. Priority should be given to local food production through financing smallholders, protecting human rights, strengthening family farming systems, cooperatives and regional supply chains. Prioritising maternal and infant nutrition needs is also essential for solid and resilient food security.
The resolution encouraged developing countries' transition to greater self-sufficiency, giving farmers responsibility, ownership and independence in creating sustainable agri-food systems and more self-sufficient production systems.
Building resilience to future shocks
Members believe that building resilience must respond to the increasing frequency and intensity of conflicts and natural disasters, including droughts, cyclones and floods, as well as health crises, biodiversity loss, structural inequalities and economic shocks, which often have multiple impacts on the most vulnerable.
Parliament called on the EU to, inter alia:
- promote predictable, specific and targeted funding for preventive and anticipatory action to prevent food insecurity, mitigate its effects and increase attention and funding for locally driven resilience and adaptation;
- strengthen livelihoods programmes to support food security and to ensure people’s capacity to generate and sustain their livelihoods and improve their own and future generations' well-being;
- protect small-scale producers' access to and control over land and other resources, including farmers' seeds, and the infrastructure that links rural people to territorial markets, including urban areas;
- design food waste prevention programmes that include the development of short food supply chains, which reduce the risk of food waste;
- ensure that food production takes priority over agricultural biofuel production, with the aim of securing additional food supplies and stabilising global food commodity markets;
- contribute, through development assistance, to combating the discrimination faced by women, particularly with regard to women farmers' access to land, productive resources and financial services;
- assisting partner countries in adopting sustainable agricultural practices and innovative solutions to improve their resilience and adaptation to climate change.
Parliament called for the full integration of the humanitarian-development- peace nexus approach in security strategies in third countries.
A complementary EU humanitarian and development policy response
Parliament recalled that humanitarian aid should be stepped up in countries affected by food crises or conflicts. It condemned any actions where access to food is used as a tool of oppression or a weapon of war. Members recalled that Ukraine and Russia account for almost 30% of world trade in wheat, 32% in barley, 17% in maize, over 50% in sunflower oil and 20% in sunflower seeds. They pointed out that the reduction or loss of Ukrainian exports will affect countries heavily reliant on their production, including countries already experiencing food insecurity that are vulnerable to supply shocks and price increases, as in the case of Africa. They called on the Commission and the Member States to urgently assess all available means to avoid a default in the balance of payments of food importer countries.
The Commission is asked to ensure the development of a multi-sectoral nutrition strategy and to prioritise the integration of food security and nutrition into health, education, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions, in order to ensure that at least 20% of official development assistance under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe is dedicated to social inclusion and human development.
Members called for nutrition to be integrated into universal health coverage and called on the European Commission to (i) integrate the right to water and the development of water and sanitation infrastructure into its interventions for food security in developing countries; (ii) integrate fisheries and aquaculture products when adopting food security strategies.
Documents
2022/07/05
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2022/06/28
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2022/06/28
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2022/06/23
EP - Vote in committee
2022/06/22
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/04/04
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/04/04
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/02/11
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/01/05
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2021/11/25
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2021/10/20
EP - FLANAGAN Luke Ming (GUE/NGL) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
2021/05/26
EP - KEMPA Beata (ECR) appointed as rapporteur in DEVE
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2022)599
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0287/2022
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0195/2022
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0195/2022
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE734.216
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE730.115
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE731.478
- Committee opinion: PE699.307
- Committee draft report: PE703.106
- Committee draft report: PE703.106
- Committee opinion: PE699.307
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE730.115
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE731.478
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE734.216
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0195/2022
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2022)599
Activities
- Rainer WIELAND
Plenary Speeches (3)
- Beata KEMPA
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Luke Ming FLANAGAN
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Maria NOICHL
Plenary Speeches (1)
- María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Miguel URBÁN CRESPO
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Pierrette HERZBERGER-FOFANA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Caroline ROOSE
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Mick WALLACE
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Stéphane BIJOUX
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Benoît BITEAU
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Bernhard ZIMNIOK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Janina OCHOJSKA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Nicola BEER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Mónica Silvana GONZÁLEZ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Marlene MORTLER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Barry ANDREWS
Plenary Speeches (1)
Votes
Question de la sécurité alimentaire dans les pays en développement - Addressing food security in developing countries - Verbesserung der Ernährungssicherheit in Entwicklungsländern - A9-0195/2022 - Beata Kempa - Proposition de résolution #
2022/07/06 Outcome: +: 602, 0: 20, -: 15
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2021/12/08
AGRI
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 g (new) 8g. Calls on the Commission to withdraw its signature from the EU- Mercosur Trade Agreement;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Welcomes any initiative to implement or strengthen agricultural policies at national or regional level, which aim to ensure greater food self- sufficiency and sustainability for agricultural production;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that, even today, almost 820 million people living primarily in developing countries do not have enough to eat and 2 billion people suffer from malnutrition; points out that most of these people are farmers who struggle to access the resources they need to produce (land, water, seeds, etc.) because of their poverty; stresses that this drastic situation is forcing them to leave the countryside, expanding the urban slums and fuelling migratory flows;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Emphasises that agriculture
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Emphasises that agriculture and food security are the foundation blocks for broader economic development
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Emphasises th
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Emphasises that agriculture and food security are a priority and form the foundation blocks for broader economic and social development
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Emphasises that agriculture and food security are the foundation blocks for broader economic development, and insists
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Emphasises that agriculture and food security are the foundation blocks for broader economic development, and insists that agricultural development must support self-sufficient agricultural production systems and food sovereignty in developing countries, as should be the case for Europe;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights the positive contribution of expertise of the European agricultural sector for the development of world food production and stresses the need to prioritise partnerships in research and innovation in agriculture, including through Horizon Europe, in order to increase yields and farm outputs;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that a policy that can contribute to
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Emphasises that the EU is responsible for increasing its agricultural production capacity in order to guarantee its own food security and contribute to global food security;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Notes that the UN Food Systems Summit in September 2021 highlighted the need to promote policies for sustainable food systems, at national and international level, and proposed that the EU should play a central role in cooperation with indigenous communities in these efforts in line with its own Farm to Fork strategy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the need to recognize the leading role of farmers, producer organizations and their representatives in any strategy to enhance food security;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Points out that each nation in the world has the right to feed itself with its own resources, and that it would be unrealistic to believe that the European Union could and should meet the needs of the developing countries with rapidly growing populations; notes that this is not its role and that it does not have the capacity for it; stresses that the Union can of course show solidarity by providing food aid here and there on a temporary basis in the case of climate disasters or armed conflicts, but that it should focus on contributing to the global food balance by mobilising the international community to develop governance and democratic organisation to ensure food security based on tackling waste, putting an end to the plundering by certain powers of the resources of developing countries (including land grabbing) and, above all, ensuring adequate management of food security stocks; points out that this would also contribute to the fight against the risk of shameless financial speculation on the international agricultural and food markets;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Points out the need for clear guidelines on how to achieve policy coherence for development at EU level while also addressing potentially conflicting policy objectives; notes that Policy Coherence for development is an approach and policy tool to integrate the economic, social, environmental and governance dimensions of sustainable development at all stages of domestic and international policy making;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Points out the need for clear guidelines on how to achieve policy coherence for development at EU level while also addressing potentially conflicting economic and policy objectives; highlights the need to advance the EU’s interests;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes the importance of the strategic linkages between Africa and Europe, building on the progress made in the AU-EU Rural Transformation agenda, as evidenced by the conclusions of the 4th AU-EU Agriculture Ministerial meeting in June 2021, and seek to ensure that the AU-EU partnership to develop the African agri-food sector and rural economy is adequately reflected in the conclusions of the 2022 AU-EU Summit;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that a policy on ensuring food security in developing countries must mirror the founding principles of the common agricultural policy, in that its primary goal must be to provide
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Notes that trade policies should be combined with structural reforms that foster agricultural productivity. Highlights that according to the AU-EU Agriculture Ministerial Summit in June 2021, reducing tariffs alone is not sufficient to enhance intraregional trade and that issues such as trade logistics, non-tariff barriers and inadequate business and regulatory environment must also be addressed;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Recognises the need for a food systems approach which acknowledges the integrated mature of food, environmental and health policy, with the three elements of economic, environmental and social sustainability at its core;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Recognises the need to encourage a spirit of cooperation that combines local projects and knowledge with finance, technological advancements and knowledge transfer systems through a vocational training model such as discussion groups and peer to peer learning;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers that EU support via its cooperation and development policy must not mean imposing our models or our technologies, which are often ill-adapted to other countries’ agriculture models, economies and crops, but must instead be based on collaboration, notably through training and exchanges of knowledge, giving farmers ownership and independence in the definition of projects that they themselves prepare in conjunction with the other actors in their regions;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the importance of
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the importance of systematically assessing the effects of new policies and strategies on developing countries and taking action in order to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the importance of systematically assessing the effects of new policies on developing countries in order to ensure that they are effective and achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the importance of systematically assessing the effects of new policies on developing countries, and vice versa, in order to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the importance of systematically assessing the effects of new policies on developing countries in order to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals; with a particular focus on SDG 2 "Zero Hunger";
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that in excess of 45 million children under the age of 5 suffer from wasting, defined as low weight-for-height, due to acute malnutrition in early life; Calls for priority to be given to this global problem in future EU policy measures;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that a policy on ensuring food security in developing countries must mirror the founding principles of the common agricultural policy, in that its primary goal must be to provide affordable safe food for its citizens while
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes the negative impacts of ILUC (indirect land-use change) especially on developing world food security. This displacement effect of the EU using its arable land to produce fuel not food, shifts production to developing countries, where people struggle to feed themselves; Notes that such displacement effects as ILUC can also occur within those 3rd countries who export agrofuels to us. Direct land use change also occurs with e.g. palm oil plantations replacing tropical forest and savannah. A huge impact on global hunger is also the 14% target of agrofuels within transport fuel, within the RED renewable energy directive, which therefore drives global deforestation and hunger;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Welcomes in particular the recommendations of the Task Force Rural Africa and the setting up of the agrifood platform linking the African and European agrifood private sectors to boost twinning, the exchange of best practices and sustainable and inclusive investments in local agriculture;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Underlines that the farm to fork strategy is
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Underlines that the farm to fork strategy ris
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Underlines that the farm to fork strategy is the EU’s most ambitious policy framework to promote a more sustainable and resilient EU food system and must promote equivalence in global food production to support a global and just transition to sustainable food systems;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Underlines that the
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Underlines that the farm to fork strategy is the EU’s most ambitious policy framework to promote a more sustainable and resilient EU food system and support a global transition to sustainable food
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Underlines that the farm to fork strategy is the EU’s most ambitious policy framework to promote a more sustainable and resilient EU food system and support a global transition to sustainable food systems; stresses that the cumulative direct and indirect impact of the farm to fork strategy on world food production and world food prices needs to be carefully assessed;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Underlines that the farm to fork strategy is the EU’s most ambitious policy framework to promote a more sustainable and resilient EU food system and support a
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that a policy on ensuring food security in developing countries must mirror the founding principles of the common agricultural policy, in that its primary goal must be to
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines the essential role of women and girls in food systems; recalls that while the majority of smallholder farmers in developing countries are women, they are severely disadvantaged in their access to food and their burden of work; emphasizes that EU policies concerning fair, sustainable, and resilient food systems have to explicitly address gender inequality, especially women and girls' access to nutritious food, land, credit, knowledge, dignified work, natural resources and markets, and to ensure their rights and participation in decision making;
Amendment 51 #
5a. Stresses that women, young people and small farmers must play central part of the agricultural systems of developing countries and must play a key role in the policy agenda;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that the developing world has already shown that food security can be ensured by following agroecological (AE) methods pushed by the UN FAO and their soil preservation drive, as well as other SDGs. Agricultural productivity has risen many times over (offset by the concurrently high population rate increase in some regions). Tambourini et al 2020 1a is a meta-study of meta-studies, comparing 15k farms globally, showing that in 2/3 of cases, AE produces as much if not more than conventional chemically dependent farming systems. AE also costs much less for developing world farmers; _________________ 1a https://www.researchgate.net/publication/ 345323439_Agricultural_diversification_ promotes_multiple_ecosystem_services_wi thout_compromising_yield
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Underlines the importance of supporting and promoting knowledge sharing and peer learning, such as farmer-farmer and business-business, in the areas of production, processing and marketing;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Highlights the need to work with and respect indigenous knowledge and understanding of the natural environment;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Highlights the EU’s commitment under the farm to fork strategy to focus on international cooperation on research and innovation in the food sector, and underlines the need to focus on ensuring inclusive and fair value chains, promoting healthy eating, identifying measures to prevent and manage food crises, and strengthening preparedness and risk prevention mechanisms;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the necessity to reinforce research
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that the reduction in European agriculture’s carbon footprint must involve the third countries, or the measures will have a much lesser impact at global level and the competitiveness of European agriculture will be damaged; stresses, too, the necessity to reinforce research and share innovations between the EU and developing countries to increase food system resilience, especially in the context of climate change;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the necessity to reinforce research
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that a policy on ensuring food security in developing countries
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the necessity to reinforce research and share innovations between the EU and developing countries to increase food system resilience, especially in the context of climate change and to boost responsible and ethical innovations to promote sustainable agricultural practices; highlights that poor infrastructure and sanitation in developing countries are also closely linked to food instability, and must be targeted in the effort to improve food security; emphasizes on the importance of implementing the circular economy in agricultural production systems to increase their sustainability and resource- efficiency, and to decrease food losses and waste to the best extent possible;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the necessity to reinforce research and share innovations between the EU and developing countries to increase food system resilience, especially in the context of climate change; highlights the opportunities of digitalisation to use land and resources in a more efficient way contributing to increased food production;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the necessity to reinforce research and share innovations between the EU and developing countries, without increasing their dependence, to increase food system resilience, especially in the context of climate change;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Considers exports to third countries of pesticides banned in the European Union to be unacceptable and stresses that poor countries are the recipients of the vast majority of these exports; welcomes, therefore, the Commission's intention to present a proposal to end this practice in the framework of the EU Strategy on Chemicals for Sustainability; urges, however, the Commission to promote the search for alternatives to the use of these pesticides in order to avoid serious disruptions to food security in developing countries, thus aggravating hunger among the most vulnerable populations;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Highlights that digital technologies and smart and precision farming offer significant opportunities for the development of sustainable agri-food systems and for driving fair and inclusive economic growth in rural areas of developing countries;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Highlights the importance of developing and updating an EU-wide database, accessible to the competent authorities, that keeps records of supply stocks, particularly cereal stocks, in order to lay the foundation for a system that ensures continuous food security at an appropriate level and minimises food waste;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Underlines the need to establish and regularly update the national food security strategies, which should be based on comprehensive analyses of the specific needs of each Member State;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Encourages increased consistency
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Encourages increased consistency between EU development and trade policies to support the global transition to sustainable agrifood systems; stresses that for sustainability objectives to be successfully pursued it is a pre-requisite that third countries acting on the global stage contribute their part;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Encourages increased consistency between EU development and trade policies to support the global transition to sustainable agrifood systems; stresses that EU free trade agreements (FTAs) should not disrupt local agriculture, damage small producers or exacerbate dependency on food imports; recalls the principle of policy coherence for development to ensure European exports do not hinder the development of local and emerging production; calls for support for food sovereignty and local and regional markets as an alternative to current trade-oriented agricultural policies; urges support for local production and consumption which can ensure local employment creation, assure fair prices, guarantee the protection of workers’ health and safety, lessen countries' dependency on imports and their vulnerability to international price fluctuations;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Encourages increased consistency between EU development and trade policies to support the global transition to sustainable agrifood systems, so that food security risks, especially those relating to pricing vulnerabilities, can be kept to a minimum;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Encourages increased consistency between EU development and trade policies to support the global transition to sustainable agrifood systems without penalising European farmers;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Supports the development of trade opportunities between the EU and developing countries, which have the potential to boost local agriculture and enable regions to enhance and extend their production potential; underlines in this regard that trade agreements need to uphold the principle of fair trade and this for both trading partners;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses that all actors of the agri- food sector need to exercise due diligence over their supply chain, namely to set up responsible and effective practices regarding the environment, human rights and good governance (e.g. minimum age requirements and occupational safety); welcomes the announcement of legislative initiatives in 2021-2022 to enhance cooperation of primary producers to support their position in the food chain; insists that the legislation should not only cover EU based producers but also protect producers and farmers from developing countries who work with European companies;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls for an independent stand- alone complaints mechanism that is open to civil society actors such as small farmers' cooperatives for example signalling breaches of rules such as dumping with milk powder or meat products that can sporadically collapse local markets;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Points out the need for the European Commission to investigate the impact of EU milk powder sold in Africa, bulked up with vegetable fats including palm oil, is having on nutritional health, local farming incomes and deforestation;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Calls also for PCD (policy coherence for development) obligations to be evaluated by the EU Ombudsman, including the work of the Commission's DG Trade e.g. chief trade enforcement office;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Highlights that strategic investments in sustainable agriculture practices can play a key role in ensuring more resilient and sustainable agri-food systems. Ensuring that investments are directed at sustainable practices can aid in the transition towards sustainable and integrated food systems that allow for a continuous supply of safe, affordable, nutritious and environmentally sustainable food;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that while lifting export subsidies and decoupling direct payments has
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that while lifting export subsidies and decoupling direct payments has significantly reduced the risk of dumping practices, some areas of concern persist and should be closely monitored, in particular agricultural sectors still tied to coupled income support in many EU Member States
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that while lifting export subsidies and decoupling direct payments has significantly reduced the risk of d
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that while lifting export subsidies and decoupling direct payments has
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that while lifting export subsidies and decoupling direct payments has significantly reduced the risk of dumping practices, some areas of concern persist
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Denounces the EU’s double standards on pesticides, which allow the export from the EU of hazardous substances which are themselves banned in the EU; highlights that the use of some pesticides in intensive agriculture in developing countries impact the health of workers in addition to causing environmental damage; calls for education and training in sustainable plant protection, agroecological and organic practices;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes a particular area of concern is meat and dairy production, as the export orientation of EU farming, and even if only taking advantage of basic and coupled payments, can place EU farmers at a significant advantage compared to some of their developing world peers, and can collapse local markets in agricultural products when undercutting with EU products occurs;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Expresses its concern regarding the worldwide increase of food insecurity over the last year and the prospects of a further increase of food insecurity in the near future; points out that food price inflation is currently experienced in most countries, typically having the highest impact on people who spend a larger share of their income on food;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Deplores the fact that land- grabbing is rife in many developing countries; points out that it is a brutal practice that undermines food security and endangers rural communities;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Notes that although this disparity been challenged for many decades, it has never been qualified or quantified; Calls therefore for an independent and impartial review of barriers to unfair trade, that evaluates the competitive positions between farmers in the EU and Least Developed Countries and so assesses the Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) of the EU1a. Notes that such a study should compare like for like and control for scale of undertaking, so that the effects on smaller farms can be isolated, as for example those exporting into/out of the EU can tend to be the biggest enterprises; _________________ 1a Article 208 TFEU
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Stresses the essential contribution of young girls and women to agricultural and rural economies in developing countries; however regrets that many women do not have the same rights as men, have more limited access to land and face many constraints that reduce their agricultural productivity; considers it therefore of crucial importance to support and enhance the empowerment of young girls and women in developing countries;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Supports European financing for producers and agrifood businesses so that they can make the necessary investments to bring them into line with the requirements of the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point), by implementing measures to eliminate any potential food security risk;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Points out that in many countries with high rates of poverty and high numbers of people without food security, large areas of land are controlled by multinational corporations that use the land to produce agricultural products exported to the EU at dumped prices;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Points to the widespread corruption of government authorities in many developing countries, and the abuses committed by law enforcement agencies and the army to drive indigenous farmers off the land for the purpose of selling it to multinational corporations;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8c. Recalls that many developing countries have considerably less stringent or no rules on the use of GMOs, pesticides and the misuse of hormone preparations for growth promotion in farm animals, and that multinational corporations exploit this difference in regulation to produce unsafe food that they import into the EU;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 d (new) 8d. Cautions against further liberalisation of international trade in food products through World Trade Organisation agreements and bilateral or multilateral agreements involving the EU;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 e (new) 8e. Calls on the Commission not to negotiate at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference an agreement that includes a commitment to liberalise trade in agricultural and food products;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 f (new) 8f. Calls on the Commission not to negotiate any other trade agreements, including any commitment to open up further the EU single market to imports of food and agricultural commodities from third countries;
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Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 — having regard to Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recognise
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 23 b (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 23 March 2022 entitled ‘Safeguarding food security and reinforcing the resilience of food systems’ (COM(2022)0133),
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas conflicts have an adverse impact on access to food and to good health, including nutrition services, water, sanitation and hygiene, and harm natural resources, infrastructure, production resources and livestock;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F c (new) F c. whereas conflicts disrupt the access to food and to basic social services and damage natural resources, infrastructure, production means and livestock;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas food insecurity can be a source of conflict among affected communities, hence exacerbating existing challenges and tensions linked to scarcity of resources;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J c (new) J c. whereas food insecurity can be a source of conflict among affected communities, exacerbating existing challenges and tensions linked to scarcity of resources;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas the European Union should pay particular attention to countries facing famine, aggravated by natural disasters, like Madagascar, which was recently hit by violent cyclones and where two out of every five inhabitants are affected by acute food insecurity, especially in the Great South region, where more than 300 000 children are suffering from severe malnutrition;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas inclusive, efficient, resilient and sustainable food systems are crucial to achieving the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals; whereas the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in global food systems, exacerbating inequalities and threatening the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable; whereas the UN Decade for Action calls for accelerating game changing solutions to address global challenges for people and the planet, from poverty and gender to climate change, inequality and closing the finance gap;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in global food systems, exacerbating inequalities and threatening the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable; whereas COVID-19 has led to the disruption of value chains from production, to transportation, to storage and the sale of food and restrictions on movement have reduced access to markets for farmers and consumers, and price hikes, further inhibiting equitable access to adequate food and nutrition for all; whereas COVID-19 has led to an increase in poverty in the absence of universal social protection floors and restrictions have impacted daily economic activities that many households depend on, decreasing or losing household income leading to difficulties accessing healthy food, or covering health needs;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in global food systems, exacerbating inequalities and threatening the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable; whereas the supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic exposed the non-resilience of import- based food systems and the importance of sustainable agri-food systems;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 23 c (new) — having regard to its resolution of 24 March 2022 on the need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J g (new) Jg. whereas COVID-19 has led to the disruption of value chains from production, to transportation, to storage and the sale of food, and restrictions on movement have reduced access to markets for farmers and consumers;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas COVID-19 has led to an interruption in value chains for food, from production and transport through to storage and sale, and whereas obstacles to the free movement of goods have restricted access to markets for farmers and consumers, further threatening equitable access to reasonable prices for food and to nutrition for all;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas COVID-19 has led to an increase in poverty in the absence of universal social protection floors and restrictions have impacted daily economic activities that many households depend on, decreasing or losing household income leading to difficulties accessing healthy food, or covering health needs;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas at least 60% of Africa’s economically active population works in and lives from agriculture yet the African continent continues to be dependent on food imports; whereas urgent measures are therefore needed to boost local agriculture, especially family farming, distribution channels adapted to local consumption and generational renewal in the farming sector1c; _________________ 1c https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the- ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_203469/lang-- en/index.htm ‘Over 60 per cent of Africa’s economically active population works in and lives from agriculture’.
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K d (new) Kd. whereas the increase in the agri- food deficit in many African countries in recent years is particularly difficult to understand given that most of them have farmland and a large workforce at their disposal;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution 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 116 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas a high dependency on food imports highly exposes populations to global market volatilities, especially the persons who spend an important share of their income on daily food needs;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K b (new) Kb. whereas instability of international markets leads to food insecurity in countries that lack strong agricultural policies, as periods of low prices have a negative impact on production capacities and lead to a rise in imports, which makes urban populations vulnerable when global prices are surging;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G d (new) Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution 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 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 — having regard to the Council conclusions of 26 November 2018 on strengthening global food and nutrition security, of 25 November 2019 on the Fourth Progress Report on the Action Plan on Nutrition, of 20 May 2021 on the EU’s priorities for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, and of 14 June 2021 on strengthening Team Europe’s commitment to human development, and of 19 November 2021 on Water in External Action,
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas nutrition is an important investment as good nutrition during the first thousand days of a child’s life is
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas nutrition is an important investment as good nutrition during the first thousand days of a child’s life is critical to achieving full physical, intellectual and human potential; whereas good nutrition is therefore the cornerstone of prosperity for societies; whereas for every dollar invested in nutrition, 16 dollars can be generated in returns;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas nutrition is an important investment as good nutrition during the first thousand days of a child’s life is critical to achieving full physical, intellectual and human potential; whereas hunger and malnutrition negatively affects children's abilities to learn and influence them to drop out of school; whereas good nutrition is therefore the cornerstone of prosperity for societies;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas nutrition is an important investment as good nutrition during the first thousand days of a child’s life is critical to achieving full physical, intellectual and human potential; whereas good nutrition is therefore the cornerstone of prosperity for societies; whereas the school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have had a dramatic impact on the nutrition of children in developing countries;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic left 370 million school children during the peak of the pandemic without access to a secured one school meal a day after a decade of consistent progress in this regard; whereas school meals programmes are an important element to combat child hunger and multiple forms of malnutrition;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas children in developing countries lost their only warm dish a day at schools as a result of lockdown and restrictive measures triggered by COVID- 19;
Amendment 127 #
Ha. whereas malnutrition represents a lifelong burden on society, since it prevents children in particular from developing their full potential, and therefore has an adverse impact on human and national economic development;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas malnutrition represents a lifelong burden for individuals and societies as it prevents children from reaching their full potential, thus curtailing human and national economic development;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J i (new) Ji. whereas malnutrition represents a lifelong burden for individuals and societies as it prevents children from reaching their full potential, thus curtailing human and national economic development;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 — having regard to the Council conclusions of 26 November 2018 on strengthening global food and nutrition security, of 25 November 2019 on the Fourth Progress Report on the Action Plan on Nutrition, of 20 May 2021 on the EU’s priorities for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas as in other areas of humanitarian and development aid, growing needs are not matched by adequate resources leading to a rapidly increasing funding gap, which requires smarter and more systemic approaches;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas avoiding food crises requires a systemic transformation in the direction of socially just food systems;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J f (new) Jf. whereas our current food systems exacerbate socio-economic and gender inequalities that are preventing access to a healthy nutrition;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas women play key roles in feeding the world as mothers, farmers, caregivers and producers, and, in general, through their contribution to household resources, but have unequal access to food, resources, services and assets;
Amendment 135 #
J. whereas women play key roles in feeding the world as farmers, caregivers and producers, but have unequal access to food, resources, services and assets; whereas women assume 75% of unpaid care and domestic work, and women in rural communities and low-income countries spend up to 14 hours a day on care work;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas women play key roles in feeding the world as farmers, caregivers and producers
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas women and local communities play key roles in
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas women play key roles in feeding the world as farmers, caregivers and producers, but have unequal access to food, resources, services and assets; whereas it is necessary to protect women’s and girls’ rights at all levels, ensure their access to their rights and provide space for them in decision-making processes; whereas women and girls are most impacted by climate change and disasters, leading to increased vulnerability due to compounding risks;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas women play key roles in feeding the world as farmers, caregivers and producers, but have unequal access to food, resources, services and assets; whereas it is necessary to protect women’s and girls’ rights at all levels, ensure their access to their rights and provide space for them in decision-making processes; whereas women and girls are most impacted by climate change and disasters, leading to increased vulnerability due to compounding risks;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 a (new) — having regards to the Council Conclusions on Food and Nutrition Security in external assistance of 28.5.2013,
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) Jb. whereas it is necessary to protect women’s and girls’ rights at all levels, to ensure their access to their rights on all levels and to provide space for them in decision-making processes; whereas women and girls are strongly impacted by climate change and disasters, leading to increased vulnerability;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas gender inequality influences the distribution of labour and leading to a disproportionate and unpaid care burden on women and girls;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J c (new) J c. whereas gender inequality influences the distribution of labour and leading to a disproportionate and unpaid care burden on women and girls;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) Jb. whereas gender inequalities have a direct impact on nutrition, shaping food dynamics in the household and community in ways that affect women’s and girls’ production of, access to, ability to afford and provide food, care, and health and sanitation services for themselves; and may put them at risk of increased GBV and intimate partner violence;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J d (new) Jd. whereas gender inequalities have a direct impact on nutrition, shaping food dynamics in the household and community in ways that affect women’s and girls’ production of, access to, ability to afford and provide food, care, and health and sanitation services for themselves; and may put them at risk of increased gender-based and intimate partner violence;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J c (new) J c. whereas closing the gender gap among women and men farmers could increase agricultural output by 2.5 to 4% in the poorest regions and decrease global hunger by 17%;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) Jb. whereas women constitute 43% of the agricultural labour force in partner countries, with this percentage rising to 50% or more in some countries of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, women only represent less than 20% of ag-ricultural landholders;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas women account for 43% of the agricultural workforce and almost 50% of farmers in East and South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas women make up for 43 percent of the agricultural labour force;1a _________________ 1a UN Women: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories /2014/10/sharefair-rural-women- technologies
Amendment 149 #
Ja. whereas there are 608 million family farms around the world, occupying between 70 and 80 percent of the world's farmland and producing around 80 percent of the world's food in value terms;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 — having regard to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Reports, the Global Report on Food Crises and the Global Nutrition Report, including the 2021 editions thereof, the Right to
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution 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 151 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K b (new) Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) Jb. whereas food loss and food waste are part of worldwide food insecurity and malnutrition, and increased efforts to reduce food loss and waste are a way to contribute to addressing food insecurity and malnutrition;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas one third of the food produced globally is either lost or wasted; whereas addressing food loss and waste is key to enhancing food security and nutrition and protecting biodiversity worldwide;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J d (new) Jd. whereas access to adequate healthcare is extremely restricted in many areas, in particular for the most vulnerable and marginalised people, such as women and children;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J e (new) Je. whereas access to quality health care is in many developing countries extremely limited, especially for the most vulnerable and marginalised people such as women and children;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J f (new) Jf. whereas conflicts disrupt the access to food and to basic social services (health including nutrition services, water, sanitation and hygiene) and damage natural resources, infrastructure, production means and livestock;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J l (new) Jl. whereas nutrition is an important issue underlying and driving the achievement of at least 12 of the 17 SDGs and is inextricably linked to other key sustainable development issues, either because it depends on them (i.e. water, sanitation and hygiene, and agriculture), because it enables them (i.e. health, employment), or because it does both (i.e. gender equality, and education);
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas addressing food and nutrition security requires not only
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas, however, a number of innovative projects have been set up by some third countries, such as the African ‘Great Green Wall’ initiative, which promotes agro-ecological projects;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital 10 a (new) — having regard to The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO1a), _________________ 1a FAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020, https://www.fao.org/3/ca9231en/CA9231E N.pdf
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas the lack of close international cooperation means that the global agricultural markets are structurally unstable, and global prices are marked by alternating cycles of long periods of dumped prices and short periods of panic prices;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K c (new) Kc. whereas the strategy aimed at stabilising the international markets by eliminating market distortions created by national agricultural policies has been a huge failure, as demonstrated by the 2007-2008 food crisis and confirmed by the 2022 crisis;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K e (new) Ke. whereas agricultural policies are the primary macroeconomic policies and, due to a lack of protection against the extreme volatility of global prices, the damage caused by inflation is devastating for emerging economies;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K b (new) Kb. whereas the Committee on World Food Security is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to cooperate towards the common goal of ensuring food security and nutrition for all;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution 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) 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;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K b (new) Kb. whereas an active role of the EU in tackling food insecurity is essential, insofar it provides nearly half of the global official development assistance (ODA);
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital 10 b (new) — having regard to the sustainable fisheries partnership agreements between the EU and third countries,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 a (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 19 #
Motion for a resolution 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 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 23 a (new) — having regard to the EU Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in External Action 2021– 2025 (GAP III) and the European Parliament's Resolution on it1a, _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2022-0073_EN.html
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution 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 21 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 — having regard to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the closely connected and integrated nature thereof, in particular SDG 1 to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, SDG 2 to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, SDG
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 — having regard to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the closely connected and integrated nature thereof, in particular SDG 1 to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, SDG 2 to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, SDG
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 — having regard to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the closely connected and integrated nature thereof, in particular SDG 1 to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, SDG 2 to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, SDG3 to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, SDG 5 to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, SDG 6 to ensure access to water and sanitation for all, SDG 10 to reduce inequality within and among countries, SDG 12 to ensure
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 17 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 25 #
Motion for a resolution 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 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital 23 a (new) — having regard to the June 2020 report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1b, which highlights the link between combating climate change and conserving biodiversity, _________________ 1b IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Workshop Report
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital 23 b (new) Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 23 d (new) — having regard to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s report "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" of 27 February 2022,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution 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 3 #
— having regard to the EU Gender Action Plan (GAP) III, setting an ambitious agenda for gender equality and women’s empowerment in EU external action of 2020,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution 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 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the severity and magnitude of food crises has risen since 2020, with 161 million people severely food insecure in 2021 and in need of urgent food assistance12 and five countries were considered to be at risk of famine, including South Sudan, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nigeria (16 states and Federal Capital Territory) and Yemen; _________________ 12 Global Report on Food Crises 2021,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the severity and magnitude of food crises has risen since 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and climate change, with 161 million people severely food insecure in 2021 and in need of urgent food assistance12; _________________ 12 Global Report on Food Crises 2021,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the severity and magnitude of food crises has risen since 2020, with 161 million people severely food insecure in 2021 and in need of urgent food assistance12
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the severity and magnitude of food crises has risen since 2020, with 161 million people severely food insecure in 2021 and in need of urgent food assistance12 ; whereas the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises reported the highest number of acutely food insecure people worldwide on record; _________________ 12 Global Report on Food Crises 2021,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas close to 12 percent of the global population was severely food insecure in 2020, representing 928 million people – 148million more than in 2019;1a _________________ 1a 2021 SOFI report: https://www.fao.org/3/cb4474en/cb4474en .pdf
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H c (new) H c. whereas the number of undernourished people globally is projected by 7.6 million people to 13.1 million people;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the right to food refers to the dimension of availability, accessibility, adequacy (sufficient quantity and stability of access);
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 23 a (new) — having regard to the Commission's communication "EU Gender Action Plan (GAP) III – An ambitious agenda for gender equality and women's empowerment in EU external action" of 25 November 2020,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas the unprovoked and unjustifiable Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has further destabilised already fragile agricultural markets and exacerbated the already severe situation caused by COVID-19;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) Gb. whereas Russian invasion risks having serious consequences for global food security, in Ukraine but also for many food-deficit countries in Africa (including Sub-Saharan Africa), the Middle East, and the Western Balkans; together with rising food prices, this is likely to increase poverty and instability in these countries;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas the Russian aggression on Ukraine can dramatically increase food insecurity in many developing countries that are highly dependent on Ukrainian and Russian wheat imports;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution 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 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) Hb. whereas FAO estimates that the global supply gap that would result from a sudden and steep reduction in grain and sunflower seed exports by Ukraine could push international food and feed prices well above their already elevated levels;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K c (new) K c. whereas the illegal, unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine by Russia is putting additional pressure on ongoing food crises and food security in the world, pushing international food and feed prices well above their already elevated levels; whereas both countries are key suppliers of wheat to many countries in the world; whereas, according to FAO, nearly 50 countries depend on Russia and Ukraine for at least 30 percent of their wheat import needs and of these, 26 countries source over 50 percent on their wheat imports from both countries;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K d (new) Kd. whereas the World Food Programme was buying nearly half of its global wheat supplies from Ukraine; whereas the World Food Programme has pointed out that current food crises in countries such as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria and Yemen will be the most affected by this situation due to their dependency on wheat;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas many countries that are highly dependent on imported foodstuffs and fertilizers, including several that fall into the Least Developed Country (LDC) and Low-Income Food-Deficit Country(LIFDC) groups, rely on Ukrainian and Russian food supplies to meet their consumption needs; whereas many of these countries, already prior to the conflict, had been grappling with the negative effects of high international food and fertilizer prices;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution 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 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 5 a (new) — having regard to the EU Gender Action Plan(GAP) III,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas food prices were already high before the Ukraine crisis with an increase in wheat prices of 80 percent between April 2020 and December 2021. Whereas the FAO Food Price Index which tracks the international prices of food items, has risen to a new all-time high, exceeding the previous top of 2011 and additional price hikes and food inflation are likely, with inflation extending to fertilisers and energy; whereas 14 low or lower-middle income countries import more than 50 percent of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine, some of whom are already facing famine- like conditions and almost 50 countries depend on Ukraine and Russia for over 30 percent of their wheat import needs;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution 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 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas evidence shows that investments in the smallholder sector and regional structures yield the best returns in terms of poverty reduction and growth, consequently highlighting the need to focus the efforts on enhancing incomes of smallholder farmers, and especially women smallholder, and to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas evidence shows that investments in the smallholder sector yield the best returns in terms of poverty reduction and growth, hence highlighting the need to focus efforts on enhancing incomes of smallholder farmers and the resilience of vulnerable communities;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J e (new) Je. whereas evidence shows that investments in the smallholder sector yield the best returns in terms of poverty reduction and growth, hence highlighting the need to focus efforts on enhancing incomes of smallholder farmers and the resilience of vulnerable communities;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K b (new) Kb. whereas many small scale farmers in developing countries cannot access healthy and sustainable diets given remote locations, low income, and a lack of access to sources of diverse foods;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas healthy diets were unaffordable for around 3 billion people in the world in 2020 a
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, according to the World Bank, ‘in 2021, approximately 27 million West Africans needed immediate food assistance due to a combination of drought, poverty, high cereal prices, environmental degradation, displacement, poor trade integration, and conflict’1a; _________________ 1a https://www.banquemondiale.org/en/news /press-release/2021/11/18/addressing- food-insecurity-and-boosting-the- resilience-of-food-systems-in-west- africa#:~:text=En%202021%2C%20envir on%2027%20millions,int%C3%A9gration %20commerciale%20et%20des%20conflit s. ‘In 2021, approximately 27 million West Africans needed immediate food assistance due to a combination of drought, poverty, high cereal prices, environmental degradation, displacement, poor trade integration, and conflict.’
Amendment 59 #
D. whereas malnutrition is an abnormal physiological condition caused by undernutrition as well as overweight and obesity; whereas an unacceptably large number of people are still affected by malnutrition: of all children under five, 22 % are stunted due to chronic malnutrition, 6.7 % are affected by wasting – a form of acute malnutrition – and 5.7 % are overweight14
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 — having regard to the Joint Statement by the Council and the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, Parliament and the Commission on the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid of 20083 and having regard to the 2017 European Consensus on Development, _________________ 3 OJ C 25, 30.1.2008, p. 1.
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas an unacceptably large number of
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas an unacceptably large number of people are still affected by malnutrition: of all children under five, 22 % are stunted due to chronic malnutrition, 6.7 % are affected by wasting – a form of acute malnutrition – and 5.7 % are overweight14 and the actual stunting and wasting figures are expected to be higher due to the effects of the pandemic; _________________ 14 UNICEF, World Health Organization
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the health of women and adolescent girls is closely linked to the physical and mental health as well as the nutritional status of their future children; whereas undernutrition among pregnant women and mothers increases the risk of complications during pregnancy, maternal mortality and child undernutrition and mortality;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J j (new) Jj. whereas the health of women and adolescent girls is closely linked to the physical and mental health as well as nutritional status of their future children; whereas undernutrition among pregnant women and mothers increases the risk of complications during pregnancy, maternal mortality and child undernutrition and mortality;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) Jb. whereas the health of women and girls is closely correlated with the physical and mental health and the nutritional status of their future children;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas maternal malnutrition also has long-term effects on unborn children, and whereas, according to UNICEF, low birth weight affects more than 20 million newborns every year1b; _________________ 1b https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/maternal #:~:text=During%20pregnancy%2C%20p oor%20diets%20lacking,and%20develop mental%20delays%20for%20children. ‘UNICEF estimates that low birth weight affects more than 20 million newborns every year.’
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J c (new) Jc. whereas malnutrition in pregnant women and mothers increases the risk of complications during pregnancy and maternal mortality as well as malnutrition and mortality in children;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas ensuring safe and secure access to water is part of improving food security and nutrition; whereas water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) — having regard to the 2017 European Consensus on Development,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution 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 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Db. whereas treatment and preventive services related to undernutrition remain insufficiently integrated into the essential care packages of national health systems, and equitable access to care services remains insufficient;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D c (new) D c. whereas health systems that are already not very resilient are being challenged by the regular emergence of epidemics, particularly in their ability to ensure continuity of the most basic care;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J k (new) Jk. whereas over the past two years, health system resources are being diverted from a range of nutritionally important functions and essential health services that affect nutrition — including antenatal care, micronutrient supplementation, and prevention and treatment of childhood diarrhoea, infections and acute malnutrition — toward combating Covid-19;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J h (new) Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) Gb. whereas the COVID-19 crisis shows how important it is to support resilient and strong healthcare systems that can guarantee continuity of care even during the pandemic and conflicts;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas chronic poverty and high and persistent levels of inequality together with more frequent natural disasters, linked to climate change in particular, are the underlying causes of food insecurity and malnutrition;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas chronic poverty
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas chronic poverty and high and persistent levels of inequality are the underlying causes of food insecurity and malnutrition, and whereas the lack of adaptation of farming systems in certain developing countries and the least advanced countries makes food self- sufficiency impossible;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 10 March 2021 on “the EU humanitarian action, new challenges and same principles”, which envisages inter alia key actions to strengthen the humanitarian-development-peace nexus to better link urgent relief and longer- term solutions (COM(2012)110),
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas food insecurity impacts health, disrupts societal functioning, including the ability for families to send their children to school, and by adding stress on families, is catalytic to domestic and gender-based violence and can lead to the need to migrate; whereas climate change exacerbates existing challenges and underlying vulnerabilities, worsening poverty and food insecurity, forcing communities to face compounding crises;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas food insecurity disrupts societal functioning, including the ability for families to send their children to school, and by adding stress on families, it can be a driver of domestic and gender- based violence;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas food insecurity has serious societal impacts, including on health, education, employment, welfare, and compounds domestic and gender- based violence;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution 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) Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J d (new) Jd. whereas climate change including increases in frequency and intensity of extremes have reduced food and water security, hindering efforts to meet the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F b (new) Fb. whereas climate change exacerbates existing challenges, like a sudden losses of food production and access to food, and underlying vulnerabilities, worsening poverty and food insecurity, forcing communities to face protracted crises; whereas a decreased diet diversity has increased malnutrition in many communities as a consequence, especially for indigenous peoples, small-scale farmers and low- income households, with children, elderly people and pregnant women particularly concerned;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J d (new) Jd. whereas climate change poses significant risks for food security as it decreases crop yields, modifies pastures and transhumance paths, decreases the nutritional value of food and has differentiated impacts according to gender, further exposing women to risks and vulnerabilities; whereas climate change exacerbates existing challenges and underlying vulnerabilities, including worsening poverty and food insecurity, forcing communities to face compounding crises;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution 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) 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 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 b (new) — having regard to the Commission Communication COM(2013) 141 final of 2.3.2013 on “Enhancing Maternal and Child Nutrition in External Assistance: An EU Policy Framework”,
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas building the resilience of biodiversity and supporting ecosystem integrity can maintain benefits for people, including livelihoods, human health and well-being and the provision of food;
Amendment 91 #
Fa. whereas there is a link between the increase in measures to protect and restore biodiversity and the guarantee of enhanced food security;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution 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 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise; whereas the major drivers of this are conflict,
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) Jb. whereas a lack of access to food can lead to people being forced to migrate;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the number of people in
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise; whereas the major drivers of this situation, which is deteriorating, are conflict, climate variability and climate extremes, environmental degradation, economic shocks, global population growth and failed governance15; _________________ 15Global Report on Food Crises 2021.
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise15
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Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Is alarmed by the fact that we are not on track and that it is highly unlikely to achieve the nutrition targets by 2025 or to eradicate hunger by 2030; which is the ambition by SDG2 "Zero Hunger"; recalls that hunger and food insecurity are again increasing across the world; notes with concern that around 660 million people might continue to face hunger by 2030, also due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic; reminds that bold actions are needed, especially regarding inequalities in accessing food, to accelerate progress towards the objective of Zero Hunger; recalls that the end of malnutrition in all its forms and SDG 2 should be considered as priorities in all policies, with particular attention to people in the most vulnerable situations;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the EU to protect small- scale producers’ access to and control of land and other resources including farmers’ seeds, access to water as well as access to infrastructure to link rural communities to territorial markets, including urban areas; calls on the EU to ensure appropriate financing and co-creation of knowledge and technical innovations through farmer-led research, including support for small-scale producers’ organisations and women’s associations and their collective processing and marketing activities; calls on the Commission to establish close links with partner countries for the purpose of exchanging knowledge on agriculture; highlights the expertise of the European agricultural sector and stresses the need to prioritise partnerships in research and innovation in agriculture, including through Horizon Europe, and to boost responsible and ethical innovations to promote sustainable agricultural practices in order to increase yields and farm outputs; calls, in this regard, for a stronger reliance on the contributions of traditional local knowledge in the just transition, especially regarding agricultural practices, fisheries and forest protection, thereby empowering the local people and communities;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for the EU and its Member States to mobilise long-term financial investments in food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture and to encourage partner countries to invest more in these sectors through their national budgets; Urges the EU to prioritize food security, biodiversity protection, and sustainable agriculture in its international development programming with partner countries, considering their specific local needs while ensuring access to funding for local communities and organisations supporting them; Calls on the EU and its Member States to assess and monitor, with the participation of civil society, its investments to ensure that they concretely fight poverty and food insecurity;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Emphasises the EU’s role as an enabler in the transformation of global food systems so that they can become more resilient, sustainable and fair; Underlines that the farm to fork strategy is an ambitious EU policy framework that promotes a more sustainable and resilient EU agri-food system and supports a global and just transition to sustainable agri-food systems which benefit people, nature and economic growth and which preserve natural resources in accordance with the biodiversity strategy’s objectives; recalls the Farm to Fork strategy’s intention to reduce farmers’ dependency on external outputs;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Urges the Commission to accelerate efforts to support partner countries to reduce the number of stunted children aged under five by 7 million by 2025 as committed to in the EU Action Plan on Nutrition; Calls on the European Union to continue supporting partner countries in restoring the availability of a diverse and nutritious food for school-aged children through school meals programmes while promoting locally and sustainably produced food and paying special attention to the most vulnerable children; highlights, furthermore, the utility of public procurement programmes in fostering public support for purchasing from smallholders and local producers when sourcing nutritious food for distribution; Welcomes the European Commission and several Member States' support to the School Meals Coalition in the follow-up of the Food Systems Summit; notes the importance of making sure that nutrition- sensitive approaches are linked to nutrition interventions and other health interventions in developing countries;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Recalls that resilience-building needs to address the increasing frequency and intensity of conflict
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11 b. Stresses that biofuel production has an impact on food security, since it diverts agricultural commodities such as grains, soybeans, rapeseed oil, corn and sugarcane from food production; believes that ensuring more flexible and better coordinated biofuel policies at international level is crucial when it comes to optimising food uses, while benefiting from the stabilising potential of this alternative opportunity; calls on the EU to prioritise food production over crop-based biofuel production, while respecting the waste hierarchy and taking into account the cascading principle in order to secure additional food supplies and stabilise global food commodity markets;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 c (new) 11 c. Notes the importance of the strategic linkages between Africa and Europe, building on the progress made in the African Union (AU)-EU rural transformation action agenda; Recalls the European Parliament's resolution of 16 September 2020 on EU-African security cooperation in the Sahel region, West Africa and the Horn of Africa that recalled that food insecurity is often a root cause of terrorism and armed conflict; calls therefore for full integration of the humanitarian-development- peace nexus approach in security strategies in third countries which requires supporting the provision of basic services, including food security, with the involvement of local communities;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Underlines that the COVID-19 pandemic with the ensuing economic crisis and closure of borders and the current conflict in Ukraine exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system; stresses and reminds the European Commission and Member States of the importance of creating stronger links between short, medium and long-term policies to ensure the inclusivity of the COVID-19 recovery plans while also paying special attention to the mostvulnerable groups, such as children, youth, women, elderly, and indigenous peoples; urges the EU to safeguard the right to food of developing countries and self-sufficiency, as a means of achieving nutritional security, poverty reduction and inclusive, sustainable and fair global supply chains and more sustainable food systems; as well as supporting local and regional markets, devoting particular attention to women and family farming, with the aim of securing the supply of affordable and accessible food and stronger social safety nets to ensure that the most vulnerable continue to have access to food even in emergency or crisis situations;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14.
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14 a. Considers that it is important to help developing countries put in place public policies on agriculture and food that can meet the needs of their rapidly growing populations; stresses that a policy on food security must have as its primary goal to provide sufficient, nutritious, safe and affordable food throughout the year for its citizens in a sustainable manner while guaranteeing a fair income and standard of living for farmers; notes that throughout the history of the common agricultural policy lifting export subsidies and decoupling direct payments has significantly reduced the risk of dumping in third-country markets; calls on the Commission and Member States to provide more support to agricultural development capable of ensuring food security in developing countries and to decisively increase its investment in territorial rural development;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for the EU to tailor its programming under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe to actively support a global transformation to sustainable food systems that can provide affordable healthy
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses that EU investments and interventions should be based on rigorous pre-assessments, full transparency, and inclusion of those stakeholders affected by the investments and interventions, including civil society organisations, in order to devise equitable action and strengthen capacities at a national and local level, including non-
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls for the EU action plan on nutrition to be revised to address all forms of malnutrition in humanitarian and development contexts respectively and include new ambitious political and financial commitments;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17 a. Notes that 45 million children under the age of five suffer from wasting, defined as low weight-for-height, as a result of acute malnutrition in early life; recalls that overweight and obesity among adults, adolescents and children are rising to record levels affecting 2 billion people globally of which 70% live in low- and middle-income countries; recalls that overweight and obesity are associated with a risk of diet-related diseases including non-communicable diseases because malnutrition is a challenge for all nations regardless of their development stage; consequently, many countries are now experiencing a ‘double burden’ of at least two types of malnutrition where undernutrition and overweight and obesity coexist; calls on the European Commission to revise the 2010 policy framework for food security and the 2013 policy framework for nutrition, as called for by the EU Member States in the Council’s 2018 conclusions on strengthening global food and nutrition security;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18.
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Supports the ongoing realisation of the humanitarian, development and peace- building nexus; highlights that this principle should continue to be include
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Welcomes the work of the EU and of the UN Rome-based agencies, namely FAO, WFP and IFAD, to pursue anticipatory action to prevent crises before they hit and protect the most vulnerable groups from climate and human induced disasters; calls for coordination mechanisms with local actors on the ground to be strengthened and to find greater interlinkages between short term anticipatory actions and longer-term government programmes; recalls that inclusive anticipatory action should be context-specific and locally led and ensure that the most vulnerable have also a voice at the decision-making level to address their specific needs;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Notes th
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Recalls that Ukraine and Russia are important players on the global food export market; consequently, for a number of countries with high levels of hunger Ukraine and Russia have an outsized impact, as they import a significant share of their wheat from Ukraine or Russia; Underlines that governments should avoid in this context export bans and identify measures to support the restructuring of agricultural markets and their regulation by increasing their transparency and establishing new rules to prevent excessive financial speculation from fuelling food price volatility, which especially in a context of war, can artificially inflate wholesale prices and lead to market volatility and particularly affect developing countries and the most vulnerable populations; Strongly deplores financial speculation on agricultural and food commodities, and calls on the Commission to urgently put forward proposals to end this speculation especially in the context of war, to ensure market and agricultural production stability; recalls in this regard that the structural instability of the international agricultural markets poses a threat to global food security and political stability in many developing countries; Calls on the Commission and the Member states to support international rules aiming to stop financial speculation of agricultural and food commodities; and speculative practices;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23 a. Recalls that unsustainable agricultural intensification practises are major causes of biodiversity degradation worldwide, including genetic erosion of crop and livestock varieties; recalls that the “Farm to Fork” strategy aims to gradually reduce by 2030 the overall use and risk of chemical and hazardous pesticides from agriculture and promote alternative practises; stresses that poor countries are the recipients of an important part of hazardous substances; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s intention to present a proposal to end this practice in the framework of the EU strategy on chemicals for sustainability; urges the Commission, however, to promote the search for sustainable and affordable alternatives to the use of these pesticides in order to avoid serious disruptions to food security in developing countries, which would aggravate hunger among the most vulnerable populations; calls for specific support for education and training in sustainable plant protection approaches and alternatives to pesticides as well as for the minimisation of exposure to hazardous substances;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Calls for the EU to actively fulfil the commitments of the Nutrition Year of Action 2021, notably those arising from the UN Food Systems Summit and Nutrition for Growth Summit; and play a central role in cooperation with indigenous communities in these efforts, inline with its own farm to fork strategy; welcomes the European Commission's decision to be a major partner in eight coalitions from the UN Food Systems Summit; Asks the Commission and Member States to engage with the African Union to secure greater commitment and investments to address the ongoing nutrition challenges in the region and to support the African Union Year of Nutrition: “Strengthening resilience in nutrition and food security on the African continent: Strengthening agro food systems, health and social protection systems for the acceleration of human, social and economic capital development”;
Amendment 32 #
26. Calls for continued efforts to ensure the consistency of the EU’s policies in line with the principle of policy coherence for sustainable development; urges to ensure that European exports do not harm the development of local production and local markets; stresses that EU free trade agreements should not disrupt local agriculture, damage small producers or exacerbate dependency on food imports; urges support for local production and consumption which can ensure local employment creation, assure fair prices, guarantee the protection of workers’ health and safety, and lessen countries’ dependency on imports and their vulnerability to international price fluctuations; Calls for reinforced action at international level to ensure that policy decision-making has food security at its core, in order to avoid scarcity and ensure nutritional security in the most vulnerable countries;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26 a. Supports the development of trade opportunities between the EU and developing countries, which have the potential to boost local agriculture; recalls that family farmers and smallholders have demonstrated their ability to provide diversified products and to increase food production sustainably; Points out the need for clear guidelines on how to achieve policy coherence for development at EU level while also addressing potentially conflicting policy objectives; urges the EU to guarantee the coherence of European agricultural and trade policies to support food security and food sovereignty and to protect local and regional markets; Stresses the need to recognise the leading role of farmers, producer organisations and their representatives in any strategy to enhance food security and highlights that the setting up of cooperatives and producer groups in developing countries must be supported in order to strengthen their collective capacity to organise themselves more effectively, to benefit from a better position in the food chains as well as sharing of added value on export products; Considers that the Union and the Member States should encourage the various “fair trade” initiatives and integrate environmental and social objectives in a comprehensive and holistic manner across the provisions of all trade agreements;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 23 — having regard to
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas the illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has further destabilised already fragile agricultural markets and exacerbated the already severe situation caused by COVID-19 and put additional pressure on ongoing food crises and global food security, pushing international food and feed prices well above their already elevated levels; whereas this is likely to increase food insecurity, poverty, social unrest and instability in many developing countries that are highly dependent on Ukrainian and Russian wheat imports as forty percent of wheat and corn exports from Ukraine go to the Middle East and Africa; whereas, according to FAO, nearly 50 countries depend on Russia and Ukraine for at least 30 percent of their wheat import needs and of these, 26 countries source over 50 percent on their wheat imports from both countries; whereas the World Food Programme was buying nearly half of its global wheat supplies from Ukraine and has pointed out that current food crises in countries such as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria and Yemen will be the most affected; whereas both Ukraine and Russia are net exporters of agricultural products, and they both play leading supply roles in global markets of foodstuffs and fertilisers, where exportable supplies are often concentrated in a handful of countries; whereas this concentration could expose these markets to increased vulnerability and volatility; 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 many of the developing countries, already prior to the conflict, had been grappling with the negative effects of high international food and fertilizer prices; whereas the FAO Food Price Index which tracks the international prices of food and feed items has risen to a new all-time high and additional price hikes and food inflation are likely well above their already elevated levels;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B a. whereas many small scale farmers in developing countries cannot access healthy, nutritious and sustainable diets given remote locations, low income, and a lack of access to sources of diverse foods; whereas evidence shows that investments in the smallholder sector and regional structures yield the best returns in terms of poverty reduction and growth, consequently highlighting the need to focus the efforts on enhancing incomes of smallholder farmers, and especially women smallholders, and to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas malnutrition is an abnormal physiological condition caused by undernutrition as well as overweight and obesity; whereas the health of women and girls is closely linked to the physical and mental health as well as the nutritional status of their future children; whereas undernutrition among pregnant women and mothers increases the risk of complication during pregnancy, maternal mortality and child undernutrition and mortality; whereas an unacceptably large number of
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas ensuring safe and secure access to water is closely linked to improving food security and nutrition; whereas water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population with more than 2 billion people not having direct and secure access to safe drinking water worldwide according to the latest United Nations World Report on the Development of Water Resources (2021);
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) D b. whereas health systems that are not very resilient and strong are being challenged by the regular emergence of epidemics, particularly in their ability to ensure continuity of the most basic care; whereas over the past two years, health system resources have been diverted from a range of nutritionally important functions and essential health services related to undernutrition — including antenatal care, micronutrient supplementation, and prevention and treatment of childhood diarrhoea, infections and acute malnutrition — toward combating COVID-19 and whereas treatment and preventive services for undernutrition remain insufficiently integrated into the essential care packages of national health systems, and equitable access to care services remains insufficient;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) E a. whereas according to the Sixth IPCC Report of 2022, climate change, including increases in frequency and intensity of extremes, reduces food and water security, decreases crop yields, modifies pastures and transhumance paths, and decreases the nutritional value of food, thereby hindering efforts to meet the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals; whereas climate change further exposes women to risks and vulnerabilities; whereas climate change exacerbates existing challenges, like a sudden loss of food production and access to food, and underlying vulnerabilities, including worsening poverty and food insecurity, forcing communities to face compounding crises; whereas a decreased diet diversity has increased malnutrition in many communities as a consequence, especially for indigenous peoples, small-scale farmers and low-income households, with children, elderly people and pregnant women particularly concerned;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise15
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. whereas conflicts disrupt the access to food and to basic social services, which affect stable health, including nutrition services, water, sanitation and hygiene and damage natural resources, infrastructure, production means and livestock; whereas food insecurity can be a source of conflict among affected communities, hence exacerbating existing challenges and tensions linked to scarcity of resources;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas nutrition is an important investment as good nutrition during the first thousand days of a child’s life is critical to achieving full physical, intellectual and human potential; whereas
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas as in other areas of humanitarian and development aid, growing needs are not matched by adequate resources, leading to a rapidly increasing funding gap, which requires smarter and more systemic approaches, a systemic transformation in the direction of socially just food systems as our current food systems exacerbate socio- economic and gender inequalities that are preventing access to a healthy, fair and sustainable nutrition;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas women play key roles in feeding the world as farmers, caregivers and producers
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas there are 608 million family farms around the world, occupying between 70 and 80 percent of the world's farmland, representing over 90 per cent of all farms globally, and producing around 80 percent of the world's food in value terms;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) J b. whereas one third of the food produced globally is either lost or wasted; whereas increased efforts to reduce food loss and waste by implementing the circular economy in agricultural production systems to increase the sustainability and resource-efficiency of agricultural production are key to addressing food insecurity, malnutrition and protecting biodiversity worldwide;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the severity and magnitude of food crises has risen since 2020
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Notes with concern that the Russian invasion of Ukraine will have massive impacts in the broader sense that will further exacerbate the existing food insecurity and the impacts of the COVID- 19 pandemic; notes with even greater concern that Ukraine is a key producer of basic foodstuffs such as wheat, maize and vegetable oils; calls on the Commission to develop far-reaching measures for food security and to implement these in the short, medium and long term; recalls that the EU must ensure that the right to food for all is nota market commodity; recalls that famines are some of the potential consequences that need to be seriously considered as outcomes of the war if global leaders do not take countermeasures; underlines that the Ukraine war shows how much low- income countries depend on the world market for their basic food supplies, basing their food security on a handful of grain exporting countries which makes these countries extra vulnerable to market disruptions and price increases; recalls that to feed their people, 14 low or lower- middle income countries import more than 50 percent of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine, some of whom are already facing famine-like conditions; calls on the EU and its Member states to immediately cover the funding gap in the 2022 UN Humanitarian appeals for East Africa and the Middle East, because support for these two regions is currently 99 percent underfunded; recalls that the WFP has already had to reduce rations for refugees and other vulnerable populations across East Africa and the Middle East because of a lack of funding, an increase in prices and a reduced offer of commodities on the markets, also due to the war in Ukraine; underlines that in order to absorb conflict-induced shocks and remain resilient, countries that depend on food imports from Ukraine and the Russian Federation should diversify the sources of their food supplies by relying on other exporting countries, on existing food stocks or by enhancing the diversity of their domestic production bases;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Highlights the need for policies to be country-driven, needs-based and context-appropriate as food systems are very diverse; recalls that priority should be given to local food production
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Welcomes all initiatives to implement or strengthen agricultural policies at national or regional level, which aim to ensure greater food self- sufficiency and encourages the transition of developing countries towards more self- sufficiency, giving farmers responsibility, ownership and independence in the creation of sustainable agri-food systems and more self-sufficient production systems; calls for a focus on efforts in the area of agriculture to safeguard developing countries’ right to food security in complement to the right of food sovereignty1a as well as enhancing their capacity to meet the nutritional requirements of their populations; stresses the importance of the protection and promotion of the right of local communities to access and control natural resources such as land and water; deplores the fact that land grabbing is rife in many developing countries; points out that it is a brutal practice that undermines food security and food sovereignty - and endangers rural communities; _________________ 1a Food sovereignty defined by Via Campesina as “the right of Peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.” Food security defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security exists “when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.“
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Underlines the need to consistently work with countries
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