5 Amendments of Brian SIMPSON related to 2010/2100(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU policy framework to assist developing countries in addressing food security challenges; considers, however, that the world food crisis represents not only a humanitarian disaster on an unprecedented scale but also a major threat to peace and security worldwide, and that, even though credit should be given to the Commission's commitment to seeking out solutions that could lift a billion people out of extreme poverty, the Member States must, as a matter of urgency, raise their awareness at once with a view to making new investments in agriculture and rural development, guaranteeing sufficient levels of world stocks, removing their own barriers to trade, and reducinge the debt of the countries most affected, and emphasise that the principle of policy coherence for development in the Lisbon Treaty is applied in the Common Agricultural Policy;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls that since less-favoured communities tend to derive their subsistence from agriculture, the development of non-industrial forms of agriculture and serious consideration of the assessments in the IAASTD is necessarily a condition for realising the Millennium Development Goals; believes that subsistence agriculture can offer a response to the challenge of food self- sufficiency, by means of strengthening the vital role played by women, notably via on-the-spot processing and the widespread use of loans and microcredits, and involving small producers' cooperatives as key players in the definition of effective agricultural and commercial policies;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
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5. Believes that price volatility results from the increased unregulated liberalisation of trade in agricultural products, anit is necessary to create a more transparent food tchat it is necessary to create regulatory mechanismin so the European consumers that can ensure a degree of market stability and a more transparent food chain, thus responding to the need to guarantee producersve access to information on the distribution of profits in the food chain and thereby help producers to maintain a decent standard of living;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
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6. Considers it essential to establish a more sustainable consumption pattern in the EU, and more sustainable and less energy- hungry forms of production at world level;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
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7. Believes it is not desirable to over- emphasise non-food uses of agricultural the need to use second generation agricultural materials such as straw, wood and organic waste in the products (e.g.ion of bio fuels), to avoid a situation of competition between food supplies and the current fashion for renewableproduction of renewable energy; recognises that the advantage of second generation agricultural materials compared to the first generation is that it is waste and by-products which do not require extra energy to productione and which are not potential food;