Activities of Miguel URBÁN CRESPO related to 2022/2183(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the objective of ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture
Amendments (6)
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned by continuing rise in food prices; recalls that the World Food Price Index increased by more than 60% between 2020 and 2022; stresses how high volatility in food prices is caused by financial speculation and particularly affects developing countries and the most vulnerable populations; calls the EU to introduce a stricter regulation and to support international rules aiming to stop financial speculation of agricultural and food commodities;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Strongly deplores the financial speculation on agricultural and food commodities, and calls on the Commission to put forward proposals to end this speculation and regulate food prices at a European and global level;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Stresses that trade liberalization could have an impact on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity loss as well as on food production and access to food; believes that EU trade and investment policy towards developing countries should be based on a commercial policy that favours the defence of forests and biodiversity, the development of local agriculture and local producers and farmers, to promote a full food sovereignty and to reduce the phenomenon of land grabbing and deforestation for agricultural export use;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the EU to ensure public procurement privileging local agroecological production, food safety rules appropriate to small-scale production and territorial markets protection of domestic markets against low price imports as well as consumer education and social protection to enhance consumption of nutritious local foods;
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the EU and its Member States, in particular through Team Europe, to help to build solutions with local actors and to support initiatives tailored to local realities in order to accompany partner countries towards food autonomsovereignty, through the development of local agricultural production capacities and the transition to sustainable and resilient agri- food systems.;
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the EU to protect small- scale producers’ access to and control of land and other resources including peasants’ seeds, infrastructure to link rural communities to territorial markets, including urban areas;