6 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2017/2088(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Believes that it is crucial for the EU farming sector to support the emergence of a new generation of environmentally conscious young farmers in order to tacklinge the many challenges ahead, such as climate change, preserving natural resources (soil, water and air), increasing and biodiversity (pollinators, forests, flowers, wild fauna and seeds) and promoting sustainable and local agricultural production; points out that incentives can be effective only if the EU makes a full paradigm shift in its common agricultural policy to end the intensive, production-led system and move towards local, organic farming which respects the soil and traditions, is intended for consumption in short supply chains and frees itself from global competition while protecting the production of each Member State through very high quality standards;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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2. Highlights that current common agricultural policy (CAP) instruments for young farmers should be improved in the futurereviewed; notes that these tools must be targeted to young farmers’ specific needs, including their economic and social needs, and promote projects with the highest added value for farmersvital economic needs, but also the need for social support in tackling isolation and insecurity, and promote the revitalisation of the countryside, particularly through the financing of projects which foster social cohesion and local economic activity;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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3. Stresses that, in view of the overpopulation of the major urban centres in the European Union, generational renewal is key to maintaining vibrant rural areas across Europe that foster jobs and sustainable business activity; notes that this requires access to infrastructure and services, including healthcare, social services, education, transport and high- speed broadband; points out that all these provisions are necessary in order to foster vocations, particularly among the urban young;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
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4. Emphasises that young farmers must be trained and skilled to enable them to find the ever-more complex solutions required to face current and future environmental challenges, including the use ofhave access to education and training which corresponds to the paradigm of a new local and sustainable agriculture, and that therefore they must have the know-how and skills to enable them to find the ever-more complex solutions required to face current and future environmental challenges, and to learn from the errors committed over 40 years of intensive agricultural practices, during which the chemicals industry and industrial rationalisation have prevailed over reason and over the sacred bond between farmers and their latest technological developments innd and animals; points out that technology can provide a competitive advantage and increase the quality of products in the agricultural sector, provided it serves a sustainable agricultural model based on the experience of organic farming;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
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5. Highlights the importance of coherence between local, national and EU measures for young farmers; calls on Member States to facilitate generational renewal, including through inheritance andfavourable taxation laws, rules on access to land, territorial planning and farm succession strategaccess to advantageous inheritance rights, provisions which promote access to land and prevent the predatory buying up of farmland and land use planning which facilitates agricultural work and respects the soil, and calls for measures to be taken to offer alternative distribution networks for future young farmers so that the value added is not captured by intermediaries; notes that the current CAP payments system contributes to higher land rental costs and purchase prices and that it has failed to slow down the predatory buying up of farmland;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
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6. Believes that any successful strategy for generational renewal and supporting young farmers should take a holistic approach,into account the specific characteristics of the different regions of Europe, re-establish the social bonds that characterise small- scale farming and facilitatinge young farmers’ access to land (in particular by restricting the predatory buying up of farmland), finance, advisory services and training; stresses that this should maksmall-scale farming, which is vital for humanity, an attractive occupation towould regain its meaning and the social role it has always had; points out, lastly, that agriculture is now reduced to a process whereby human beings manage their ecosystems and control the biological cycle of domesticated species, and that young farmers and the wider society. are waiting for agriculture to be made sacred once again and put at the service of the common good;