102 Amendments of Maria NOICHL related to 2022/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 15 January 2020 on the European Green Deal (2019/2956(RSP)),

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 20 October2021 on a farm to fork strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally- friendly food system (2020/2260(INI)),

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 d (new)

-1d. 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 New European Consensus on Development ‘Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future’” (2017/C210/01),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1 a. having regard to Article 27 §3 b) of the WTO-Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)

-1c. having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007,

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)

-1b. having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/ 1999 (“European Climate Law”),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 e (new)

-1e. having regard to the DEVE report on Policy Coherence for Development (2021/2164(INI)),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 f (new)

-1f. having regard to the Commission communication of 22 June 2022 on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115(COM(2022)305),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 g (new)

-1g. having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 entitled “A Farm to Fork Strategy - for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system” (COM(2020)381),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 h (new)

-1h. having regard to the Commission communication of 11 December 2019 entitled “The European Green Deal” (COM(2019)640),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 i (new)

-1i. having regard to the UN Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, entitled “Seeds, right to life and farmers’ rights” of 30 December 2021(A/HRC/49/43),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 j (new)

-1j. having regard to the UN Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, entitled “Right to food”, of 24 December 2020 (A/HRC/46/33),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 k (new)

-1k. having regard to the UN Resolution on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (A/HRC/RES/ 39/12) of 28 September 2018,

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 m (new)

-1m. having regard to the UN Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/61/295)of 2 October 2007,

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 l (new)

-1l. having regard to the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO (2009),

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 n (new)

-1n. having regard to the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, an international legal instrument for “the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources”,

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 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,

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 p (new)

-1p. whereas the Farm to Fork Strategy and the Green Deal address environmental challenges that hit developing countries particularly hard; whereas biodiversity and resilient ecosystems are essential to sustainable development, especially in the context of food and nutrition security; whereas agroecological principles are in line with biodiversity conservation, food autonomy and healthy nutrition;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 o (new)

-1o. whereas the principle of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD), as enshrined in Article208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is a commitment to take development cooperation objectives in all EU policies, including agricultural policy and trade, into account, whereas PCD is strongly connected to a “do not harm” approach;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 q (new)

-1q. whereas biodiversity has been decreasing during the last decades and nutrition is becoming more homogenized around a small number of crops; whereas biodiversity of crops is important as this allows individual farmers to adapt their agricultural planning to climate conditions and make food systems naturally more resilient against climate change, pests and pathogens; whereas at the same time this nature-based approach contributes to enhancing biodiversity;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 r (new)

-1r. whereas recent crises have shown that global supply chains can be seriously disrupted; whereas developing countries are much more susceptible to food insecurity than EU countries, particularly when depending on food imports;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 s (new)

-1s. whereas in particular Africa’s food production system is dominated by smallholder farmers and farmer-led production; whereas according to the World Food Programme (WFP), smallholder farmers are the primary food producers in Southern Africa, contributing to up to 90 percent of food production;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 t (new)

-1t. whereas according to the East African Community (EAC), post-harvest losses in food products are in the range of 30 percent in cereals, 50 percent in roots and tubers and up to70 percent in fruits and vegetables;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas on 24 February 2022 the Russian Federation illegally invaded Ukraine and, as a result, severely disrupted global food security which, nevertheless, had already been threatened before;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

1b. Recalls 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);

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Recalls 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;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms the right to food as a fundamental human right; recalls S~~ustainable Development Goal 2 of eradicating hunger by 2030;~~ DG 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 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;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recalls that hunger and food insecurity are again increasing across the world and that they will continue to increase unless prompt action is taken, and that many countries are significantly off track to achieve the zero hunger target (SDG 2) in 2030; 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;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Recalls that 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;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Underlines the value of food which must also be understood as far more than a mere commodity but as a right for people that must be realised, and the economic, social and environmental impact and externalities must be better assessed, and mitigated or leveraged as required;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. In the light of the UN Report A/HRC/49/43, points out that the right to food is inherently tied to farmers’ seed systems and their indivisible right to freely save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seeds, and calls to the EU to support these farmers’ rights;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Urges the EU to acknowledge that climate change, biodiversity and food security are interlinked and have to be addressed together; underlines that the paradigm of a green revolution is not helpful, and that sustainable agriculture based on agroecological farming practices as defined in the UN Report A/HRC/46/33 contributes to food security and biodiversity; in this light, reminds the EU of its Regulation 2018/848 on organic production and the ECJ Judgment in Case C-528/16 of 25 July 2018 and calls for applying the same standards in policies concerning developing countries;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Welcomes that the EU is acting as a global advocate of vulnerable populations and takes the calls from civil society organisations and human rights defenders seriously; underlines that the EU can influence, amongst others, trade agreement negotiations, e. g, farmers' rights to participation in law, policies and practices or land use rights; calls on the EU in this regard to strongly support the prevention of land grabbing, especially when EU action could contribute to aggravating this problem;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Calls on the EU to refrain from urging third countries to become a party of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plans (UPOV Convention); recalls that being party of UPOV is not a WTO requirement, and that WTO allows the adoption of other protective mechanisms; underlines that UPOV contradicts international commitments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and deprives farmers of their acknowledged rights to save, use and exchange seeds;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas conflicts in generall disrupt the access to food and to basic social services and damage natural resources, infrastructure, production means and livestock;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the impact of climate change, the COVID-19 crisis and conflicts on food security in developing countries; draws attention to the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which are exacerbating global food insecurity; recalls generally that the number of people in need of urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance is on the rise because, apart from the major drivers of food and nutrition insecurity like conflicts and climate change, also weather extremes, environmental degradation, economic shocks, persistent 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 contribute to it;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the impact of climate change, the COVID-19 crisis and conflicts on food security in developing countries; draws attention to the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which are exacerbating global food insecurity; emphasises the need for local food production and for strengthening local and regional and most notably intra- African food trade; calls on the EU to supporting local, regional and country initiatives in developing countries, that are striving for food autonomy;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)

2 f. Emphasises that while the negative impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security has been significant, what the world is facing today is not a new crisis but an additional layer to the existing systemic failures in the food system, and that sufficient short- and longer-term measures need to be adopted to address hunger and malnutrition in Europe and beyond;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Recalls that the Special Envoy for the UN Food Systems Summit underlined the intersection between climate and food as profound and that we have to address food systems-driven climate emissions for reaching the 1,5 degrees target;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)

3f. Recalls that recent reports have found that food systems are contributing to up to one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, up to 80 per cent of biodiversity loss and use up to 70 per cent of freshwater; underlines, however, that sustainable food production systems should be recognised as an essential solution to these existing challenges and that it is possible to feed a growing global population while protecting our planet;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Recalls that the war in the Ukraine is disrupting the food security of millions of people further and the EU must ensure that the right to food for all is not a market commodity; underlines that the EU must drastically reduce the number of animals in the EU agriculture system in order to gain food security for people in urgent need because only if the EU starts to change course now and switches to producing more plant-based food for people, and not feed for animals, it can play its essential role in helping to compensate for the expected loss of grain exports from the Black Sea region despite the Black Sea Grain Initiative; underlines that there is excessive stock market speculation on grains and other food commodities and that the EU must ensure that the "position limits", i.e. the upper limits of the amount of commodities a speculator is allowed to trade, are strictly regulated in order to achieve price stability;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Calls for taking into account the link between public health and biodiversity in line with the ‘one health’ approach; urges the EU and all partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous people’s rights to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources as set out in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and International Labour Organization Convention 169, and to comply with the principle of free, prior and informed consent;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)

2e. Recalls the fact that agroecology’s capacity to reconcile the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability has been recognised in landmark reports from the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES), as well as the World Bank and FAO-led global agricultural assessment (IAASTD); stresses the importance of promoting agroecology, agroforestry, local production and sustainable food systems which focus on the development of short supply chains in both national policies and international forums, in order to ensure food and nutritional security for all as well as increasing the sustainable productivity of the agricultural sector and its resilience to climate change;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Is concerned by the fact that one in three people worldwide still do not have access to ~~adequate food~~sufficient food and healthy nutrition; deplores the fact that in 2022, according to the World Food Programme, acute food insecurity is affecting a record 349 million people; stresses that it is children and women who are the most vulnerable to food insecurity;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recalls that climate change exacerbates existing challenges, like sudden losses of food production and access to food, and underlying vulnerabilities, worsening poverty and food insecurity, forcing communities to face protracted crises; recalls that a decreased diet diversity has increased malnutrition in many communities as a consequence, especially for small-scale farmers and low-income households, with children, elderly people and pregnant women particularly concerned;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Emphasises the importance of rural transformation and strengthening local, regional and transparent value chains in order to create sustainable jobs, avoid human rights violations and mitigate climate change; stresses the need to support young people and women, in particular through training, access to credit and access to markets; calls for their involvement in formulating agricultural policies and for support for collective action through small producer organisations;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 g (new)

3g. Notes that a shift towards healthier and more sustainable diets rich in legumes, vegetables and fruits in Europe could substantially alleviate the pressure on global grain supplies and land demand;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 j (new)

3j. Recalls that all food security requires physical, but also in terms of affordability, access to water; recalls that access to high-quality water for ensuring food security starts with the production and ends on the consumers' plate;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas avoiding food crises requires a systemic transformation in the direction of socially just food systems;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

D b. whereas most Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, including increased consumption of sustainably and regionally produced plants and plant- based foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes; whereas there is a need to address the overconsumption of meat and dairy and ultra-processed products, as well as products high in sugars, salt and fats;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Is concerned by continuing rise in food prices and calls for increased and more efficient food assistance and the transformation of food systems as well as for stronger measures to tackle structural poverty and persisting inequalities as the underlying causes of food insecurity; recalls that the World Food Price Index increased by more than 60% between 2020 and 2022;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas, ~~as a result of the global supply crisis, the FAO estima~~in 2022, the war in Ukraine, the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate and biodiversity crises have contributesd t~~hat~~o push international food and feed prices ~~have continued to rise~~ significantly above their already high levels; whereas, in order to identify ~~and prevent food speculation,~~, prevent and eliminate food speculation that fuels food price volatility, the EU must adopt new adequate regulation and operators need to become more transparent with regard to their share of value added throughout the food supply chain;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Recalls that avoiding food crises requires a systemic transformation in the direction of socially just food systems;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Underlines that 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;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Is deeply concerned about the high dependence of developing countries on food imports, especially from the European Union, particularly when these imports are made up of subsidised products whose low price represents harmful competition for local small-scale agriculture;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls the importance of ensuring cPolicy Coherence ~~among all EU policies in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the EU’s commitment to global food security~~of Development with view to food security in particular in agricultural policy and trade, in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the EU’s commitment to global food security; reminds that ensuring food security in the EU should in no way harm EU’s commitment to develop agricultural markets and value chains in partner countries as anchored in the European Consensus on Development;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

3h. Calls on the Commission to present an ambitious proposal for an EU Sustainable Food System Framework law establishing a clear and measurable path towards food system sustainability in the EU; ensuring coherence among all existing and future food-related policies, including the EU’s external and trade policies, according to the PCD principle; shifting consumption towards sustainable and healthy diets, including support for a higher consumption of legumes, vegetable and fruits; promoting favourable food environments with increased affordability and availability of sustainable and healthy food, while ensuring that prices paid for sustainable production and incomes earned by farmers are fair; strengthening the responsibility and engagement of large food businesses in the transition towards sustainability;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas better designed agricultural and food policies, including a repurposing of subsidies, can reduce the cost of sustainable and nutritious foods and increase the availability and affordability of healthy diets sustainably while leaving no one behind;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 i (new)

3i. Emphasises the latest United Nations State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report’s findings that agricultural subsidies often target the production of staple foods, dairy and other animal source foods, while fruits and vegetables are relatively less supported; notes that a repurposing of EU farm subsidies to incentivise more the production of foods contributing to healthy sustainable diets would have an impact on the affordability of such diets, hence on food security;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a new Regulation on the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products, including EU wide targets to reduce by 50% the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030 and by 50% the use of the most hazardous pesticides, in line with the EU’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies; highlights that this proposal should establish a long-term (post-2030) vision and clear pathways out of chemical pesticide dependency of European agriculture; notes that reducing the EU pesticide dependency is a driver of food security and self- sufficiency;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. In the light of the Green Deal and Farm to Fork, urges the EU to promoting the global phasing out of highly hazardous pesticides and ensuring that hazardous pesticides banned in the EU are not produced for export, as well as preventing residues of banned pesticides being tolerated in food on the EU market;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls on the EU to ensure public procurement privileging local agroecological production, food safety rules appropriate to small-scale production, protection of domestic markets against low price imports as well as consumer education and social protection to enhance consumption of nutritious local food;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the future food security of the European Union is directly linked to the ambitions of the Farm to Fork Strategy and the Green Deal; ~~whereas the cumulative effect of Green Deal related legislation must not lead to a decline in EU food production that could jeopardise food security in the EU;~~

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the commitment by the EU and its Member States to allocate EUR 7.7 billion for global food security over the period 2021-2024; stresses, however, that food insecurity is a growing problem that needs more attention as well in terms of development cooperation and Global Gateway initiatives as in terms of humanitarian aid; underlines the need for European aid to reach the most vulnerable populations as quickly as possible and to adapt to the context of multidimensional crises;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines that our current food systems exacerbate socio-economic and gender inequalities that are preventing access to a healthy nutrition;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Recalls that 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;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Calls on Team Europe to fund programmes that take the needs of farmers’ seed systems or informal seed systems into account and support seed banks or seed libraries that allow collecting, conserving and sharing of native seeds, landraces and farmers’ varieties with farmers and gardeners and furthermore, to fund measures such as training focussing on multi-cropping, integrated land use planning, water conservation and protection of the natural resource base;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Reminds that harvest loss prevention could significantly contribute to food security; calls on Team Europe to support preventive measures from low cost storage solutions such as hermetic bags and training in post harvest handling to Global Gateway infrastructure programmes, such as market infrastructure, cooling systems and roads, but also online farmers markets, in order to enhance in particular smallholder farmer’s resilience;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the sharp rise in global fertiliser prices, together with the sharp rise in other input costs for farmers, threatens food security; whereas in September 2022 the prices of nitrogen fertilisers increased by 149% compared to the previous year; whereas this shows that fertiliser inputs have to be reduced as announced in the Farm-to-Fork strategy;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls for a focus on efforts in the area of agriculture to safeguard developing countries’ right to food sovereignty and on increasing their food security as a priority, as well as enhancing their capacity to meet the nutritional requirements of their populations;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

3b. 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 countries; points out that it is a practice that undermines food sovereignty and endangers rural communities; stresses the importance of launching an inclusive process with the aim of guaranteeing the effective participation of civil society organisations and local communities in the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and actions related to land grabbing; calls for the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) to be observed in all projects that promote the protection of land rights, including in trade, and also for measures to ensure that projects do not endanger the land rights of small-scale farmers;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the EU to protect small- scale farmers’ access to and control of land and other resources including seeds, infrastructure and water;

2022/12/14
Committee: DEVE

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas in the EU, nearly 57 million tonnes of food waste (127 kg/inhabitant) are generated annually with an associated market value estimated at 130 billion euros; whereas at the same time, some 36.2 million people cannot afford a quality meal every second day; whereas food waste causes 6% of EU´s total Green House Gas emissions;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

Reaching SDGs in times of COVID-19 pandemic and war against Ukraine

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have once again demonstrated the need for the EU to strengthen its food security and the need to reduce its dependence on imports from outside the EU; ~~welcomes the adoption, due to the exceptional current circumstances, of temporary measures to increase EU production during the 2022/23 harvest season, which will contribute to food security;~~

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Reaffirms the right to food as a fundamental human right; recalls 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 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, 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;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Underlines that a high dependency on food and feed imports exposes populations to global market volatilities, especially the persons who spend an important share of their income on daily food needs;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1 c. Recalls that the war in the Ukraine is disrupting the food security of millions of people and the EU must ensure that the right to food for all is not a market commodity; underlines that the EU must drastically reduce the number of animals in the EU agriculture system in order to gain food security for people in urgent need because only if the EU starts to change course now and switches to producing more plant-based food for people, and not feed for animals, it can play its essential role in helping to compensate for the expected loss of grain exports from the Black Sea region, despite the Black Sea Grain Initiative; underlines that there is excessive stock market speculation on grains and other food commodities and that the EU must ensure that the "position limits", i.e. the upper limits of the amount of commodities a speculator is allowed to trade, are strictly regulated in order to achieve price stability;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1 d. Emphasises that while the negative impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security has been significant, what the world is facing today is not a new crisis but an additional layer to the existing systemic failures in the food system, and that sufficient short- and longer-term measures need to be adopted to address hunger and malnutrition in Europe and beyond;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

Climate Change Mitigation, Green Deal and Agriculture

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary measures to provide farmers with planning security and guarantees, making it possible to maintain and, if necessary, increase food production in the EU; calls on the Commission to ensure that farmland is used primarily for the production of food and feed; , while ensuring the implementation of the necessary measures to reduce GHG emissions and reverse biodiversity loss, in line with the Farm-to-Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, the upcoming Nature Restoration Law, the CAP objectives and the need to ensure food security in the long term;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Points out the central importance of the agricultural and food sectors in the economy and in providing decent and sustainable job opportunities in rural areas; underlines that this in most cases concerns smallholdings and family farms; notes the importance of promoting and enhancing measures and tools to support increasing product quality, diversification of products, sustainable modernisation of agricultural practices, safe working conditions and measures to strengthen the resilience of farmers;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Recalls that the Special Envoy for the UN Food Systems Summit underlined the intersection between climate and food as profound and that we have to address food systems-driven climate emissions for reaching the 1,5 degrees target;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2 c. 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 and unsustainable concentration of land are rife in many countries; points out that it is a practice that undermines food sovereignty and endangers rural communities; stresses the importance of launching an inclusive process with the aim of guaranteeing the effective participation of civil society organisations and local communities in the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and actions related to land grabbing; calls for the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) to be observed in all projects that promote the protection of land rights, including in trade, and also for measures to ensure that projects do not endanger the land rights of small-scale farmers for the benefit of big multinationals or large- scale industrial farming producing for the EU market;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2 d. Underlines that food systems have a key role to play in ending poverty and achieving SDG 1, while addressing the coexistence of overnutrition and undernutrition will be crucial to meet health objectives in SDG 3; underlines that it will be impossible to sustainably manage water resources to achieve SDG 6 without agriculture playing a central role and sustainable fisheries management is fundamental for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and seas and the achievement of SDG 14; recalls consequently, that food systems more broadly must also reflect our commitments on sustainable consumption and production in SDG 12, climate change adaptation and mitigation in SDG 13, and the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems in SDG 15;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 e (new)

2 e. Calls for a focus on efforts in the area of agriculture to safeguard developing countries’ right to food sovereignty and on increasing their food security as a priority, as well as enhancing their capacity to meet the nutritional requirements of their populations;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 f (new)

2 f. Recalls that research suggests transforming food systems could release back the 12 trillion US-Dollar the world spends on the hidden cost of food and that redirecting some of these funds could prevent further damage to the environment and to the health of people, and it could instead help rally more pledges for adaptation financing as called for by Member States and leaders during the COP 26 in Glasgow;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 g (new)

2 g. Underlines the value of food which must also be understood as far more than a mere commodity but as a right for people that must be realised, and the economic, social and environmental impact and externalities must be better assessed, and mitigated or leveraged as required;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 h (new)

2 h. Calls for the link between public health and biodiversity in line with the ‘one health’ approach to be taken into account;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 i (new)

2 i. Recalls the fact that agroecology’s capacity to reconcile the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability has been recognised in landmark reports from the IPCC and IPBES, as well as the World Bank and FAO-led global agricultural assessment (IAASTD); stresses the importance of promoting agroecology, agroforestry, local production and sustainable food systems which focus on the development of short supply chains in both national policies and international forums, in order to ensure food and nutritional security for all as well as increasing the sustainable productivity of the agricultural sector and its resilience to climate change;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 j (new)

2 j. Recalls that recent reports have found that food systems are contributing to up to one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, up to 80 per cent of biodiversity loss and use up to 70 per cent of freshwater; underlines, however, that sustainable food production systems should be recognised as an essential solution to these existing challenges and that it is possible to feed a growing global population while protecting our planet;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the European Green Deal ~~could be~~is a milestone in the EU transition to a greener and more sustainable economy, while pointing out that many of the resulting measures might have adverse effects, which have not yet been properly assessed, on EU farms and food security; calls on the Commission to carry out a comprehensive assessment; calls on the Commission to ensure that the mid-term evaluation of the Farm-to-Fork strategy reflects ofn the cumulative impact of Green Deal legislative proposals on the EU farming sector in a holistic and systemic manner, covering all dimensions of sustainability, be they environmental, economic or social, including health;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for the EU to speed up the adoption of legislation on the use of new cultivation techniques in order to increase yields and make crops more resilient to climate change and new pathogens, particularly in view of the droughts and water shortages that are afflicting an increasing number of EU Member States; points out that new cultivation targets can promote sustainable agriculture, which is not possible without innovation;deleted

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Underlines the risk of new genome techniques, which can lead to unintended and not fully controllable interactions with the environment and thereby impact the climate, animal welfare and food safety; refers to recent cases in third countries, which show the harmful potential of new genome techniques when being used; 1a _________________ 1a See also a case in the US, in which it only became apparent that after several years of breeding hornless cattle using NGTs, genes from bacteria had accidentally entered the genetic material of the animals. This included genes which could lead to antibiotic resistance, in: Then, Christoph: Testbiotech, New genomic techniques (NGTs): agriculture, food production and crucial regula- tory issues, commissioned by and written for Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), 2022, S. 41, https://www.vzbv.de/sites/default/files/202 2-11/vzbv-report_final_final.pdf (04.11.2022)

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Underlines the importance of an authorisation procedure as well as risk assessment for all new genome techniques; refers to the ruling of the Court of Justice in the case C-528/16, which confirmed, that new genome techniques need to be regulated by the respective Community law, which is the European Genetically Modified Organism legislation;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Underlines that patents on genetically modified organisms through new Genome techniques will give corporations further control over crops and seeds, restricting access to genetic diversity and threatening food security;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Emphasises that digital technologies and precision crop management can provide forward-looking solutions to the challenges arising when it comes to monitoring deforestation, the sustainable and reduced use of pesticides ~~and~~, fertilisers orand water ~~consumption~~ for agriculture; calls on the Commission to step up and accelerate the use of digital innovation to modernise EU agriculture, enabling farmers to realise their full production potential in a sustainable way and safeguard their incomes in the context of green transition while making sure that they retain the rights on their data and that small farmers are not disadvantaged;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Denounces the double standards applied by the EU regarding pesticides by allowing the export of hazardous substances that are banned in the EU to third countries; asks, therefore, for the modification of the current EU rules in order to eliminate this legal incoherence, in line with the Rotterdam Convention of 1998 and the Green Deal;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9 b. Welcomes the objective to reduce the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030 and to reduce the use of more hazardous pesticides by 50%; emphasizes that reduced pesticide use will protect biodiversity and the health of European citizens, nature, and pollinators; emphasizes that these goals are essential to ensure long-term food production and security;

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Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Reiterates that food losses and food waste can be avoided if measures are taken to reduce the presence of pathogens in food, for example by ensuring proper hygiene and the use of improved technologies along the entire value chain, as well as the regular publication of information regarding these interrelated factors; recalls that reducing food waste would be a major step towards food security worldwide;

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Committee: AGRI