Activities of Maria NOICHL related to 2021/2208(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Addressing food security in developing countries (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on addressing food security in developing countries
Amendments (42)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
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 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
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 foodnutritious, safe, affordable and high quality food throughout the year for its citizens while affording a fair standard of living for its farmers;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
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 provideallow the citizens of these countries to provide themselves with affordable, safe food for its citizensand regionally produced food while affording a fair standard of living for itslocal farmers;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
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 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9
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 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that agriculture and food security are the foundation blocks for broader economic development,e EU's role as an enabler in the transformation of food systems so they can be more resilient, sustainable, and fair within and outside the EU and its role to tackle all forms of malnutrition in humanitarian, development, and any fragile contexts and insists that agricultural development must support self-sufficient agricultural production systems and food sovereignty in developing countries;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
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 Food Guidelines of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition of the FAO Committee on World Food Security, the 10 elements of agroecology, guiding the transition to sustainable food and agricultural system (FAO), and the 2014 Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 c (new)
Citation 23 c (new)
— having regard to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) of 13 September 2007 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas of 28 September 2018,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14
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 12 to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns,3 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 sustainable consumption and production patterns, SDG 13 to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts and SDG 17 to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
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 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. PUrges the EU to guarantee the coherence of European agricultural and trade policies in line with the commitments to Policy Coherence for Development (PCD); 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; calls on the Commission to provide support for developing countries to protect their sensitive and infant industries, promote food security, support climate change mitigation for agriculture, and meet EU and international sustainability standards for the export of their agricultural products;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 b (new)
Citation 23 b (new)
— having regard to the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security (2012) and the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (2015),
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
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 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
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; practices which preserves natural resources according to the Biodiversity Strategy’s objectives; nonetheless, regrets that the global dimension of the Strategy does not include concrete proposals to realize the Right to Adequate Food, implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas or address measures to globally improve the working conditions of farmworkers and the income of small-scale farmers that are part of international food supply chains, or ensure the precautionary principle is included for all food safety requirements; calls on the EU to align its trade policy with the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies’ objectives, and the carbon neutrality objective of the EU Green Deal;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
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 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
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 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
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 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
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 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas an unacceptably large number of peoplechildren 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 and World Bank joint child malnutrition estimates, Levels and trends in child malnutrition, 2021.
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
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 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
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 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
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 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
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)
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 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
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 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
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 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
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; notes, too, that direct payments also cause an imbalance and may consequently have adverse effects on developing countries.
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
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 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
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 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise15 ; whereas the major drivers of thisfood and nutrition insecurity are conflicts, climate variability and climatechange and weather extremes, environmental degradation, economic shocks, global population growth and failed governancpersistent levels of inequality, including gender inequality, poverty, lack of access to basic social and health services, inappropriate agricultural models, global population growth and failed governance, which consequently can lead to the need to migrate; _________________ 15 Global Report on Food Crises 2021.
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
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)
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 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
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 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
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 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
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 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
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)
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 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
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 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
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 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J d (new)
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 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J e (new)
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;