15 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2022/2183(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms the right to food as a fundamental human right; recalls Sustainable Development Goal 2 of eradicating hunger by 2030, which is highly unlikely to be attained in light of the unprecedented rise of global food insecurity;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the European Commission to strengthen its approach to ensure the Right to adequate Food, implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, and to improve the working conditions of agricultural workers and the income of small-scale peasants that are part of international food supply chains;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the impact of climate change, the COVID-19 crisisbiodiversity loss, the COVID-19 crisis, ongoing global economic uncertainty and conflicts on food security in developing countries; draws attention to the consequences of Russia’s invasion ofbrutal war of aggression against Ukraine, which are exacerbating global food insecurity, including through direct weaponization of grain exports to developing countries on the part of the Russian Federation; underlines, however, that the supply chain disruptions caused by these factors expose the lack of resilience of import-based food systems, as well as the importance of food sovereignty and sustainable agri-food systems in developing countries;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned by the fact that one in three people worldwide still do not have access to adequate food, which is severely undermining the attainment of SGD 2; 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;
Amendment 90 #
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; calls, in this high inflationary context, to consider debt relief, including debt cancellation, for the countries most in need of importing food to ensure basic food security of their populations, including middle-income countries when necessary;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for partners with large food stockpiles, as well as on the private sector, to make food available without distorting the markets, including by supporting the World Food Programme´s purchase strategy;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of ensuring coherence among all EU policies in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the EU’s commitment to global food security; points out that trade, agricultural and fisheries policies have a relevant impact on global food security and, therefore, their effects on developing countries need to be properly assessed and mitigated; insists that ensuring Policy Coherence for Development in the field of food security is essential for safeguarding basic human rights and preventing major geopolitical risks, such as conflicts, forced massive population displacements and humanitarian crises;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Points out that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is essential to secure food sovereignty in the EU; stresses, however, that the CAP has to be coherent with other EU policies, including development policy; notes that despite some improvements in PCD, such as the large abolishment of export subsidies and coupled subsidy payments, CAP direct payments to EU farmers continue to account for up to 50% of total farm income in the EU, which keeps providing incentives for export-oriented production that can have negative effects for the development of strong and sustainable agrifood systems in many developing countries; regrets, in this regard, that EU spending in agricultural development in African countries is small in relation to the needs for innovation and increase of production capacity, which is essential to ensure food security and food sovereignty in African countries; calls on the Commission and Member States to provide more support to African agricultural development, including through close collaboration with local and regional authorities in partner countries, and to evaluate how CAP negative effects on Africa and other regions of the Global South can be further minimized;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Draws attention to the fact that EU legislation does not prohibit the export of pesticides banned in the EU to third countries, allowing companies to make profits by selling these chemicals to non- EU countries; points out that such a ban is an essential condition for building sustainable agrifood systems in partner countries; calls on the Commission to stand firm in its commitment under the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability to prevent hazardous pesticides banned in the European Union from being produced for being exported, as well as to ensure that no banned pesticides are allowed as residues in food placed on the EU internal market;
Amendment 123 #
5a. Calls on the Commission to review EU trade relations to make food systems robust, sustainable and fair in a comprehensive and holistic manner across all trade agreement provisions; calls on the Commission to strengthen the enforcement mechanism of the trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters and use it as a tool to foster more diverse and sustainable food systems, and to ensure that all the provisions of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) contribute to the objectives and standards enshrined in the TSD chapters regarding food security and food sovereignty; points out, in this regards, to the provisions of the EU-New Zealand FTA and calls on the Commission to review the impact of the EU trade policy on the agrifood systems of developing countries according to these standards;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Is deeply concerned that the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with countries of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) have boosted a large volume of EU dairy exports to Western African countries, especially milk powder, which hinder local production, aggravate unemployment, contribute to food insecurity and consolidate rural malaise;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Stresses that biofuel production has an impact on food security, since it can divert agricultural commodities such as grains, soybeans, rapeseed oil, corn and sugarcane from food production, thus further contributing to rising food prices; calls on the EU to prioritize food production over crop-based biofuel production in line with the cascading principle;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
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, the need for European aid to reach the most vulnerable populations as quickly as possible and to adapt to the context of multidimensional crises; calls on the EU, in this regard, to scale up essential nutrition services in countries with the highest burden of malnutrition;
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the EUCommission and itsthe Member States, in particular through Team Europe, to help fight against any speculative behaviour that endangers food security and/or access to nutritious food, as well as to build solutions with local actors and to support initiatives tailored to local realities in order to accompany partner countries towards food autonomy,sovereignty through the development of local agricultural production capacities and the transition to sustainable and resilient agri- food systems.; points out that adaptation to climate change is essential to ensure resilient sustainable food systems in partner countries and, therefore, calls on the EU to step up climate change adaptation funding in agriculture through the NDICI-Global Europe instrument;
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the inclusion of gender perspective in the management of food security and to ensure the participation of women in the decision-making process related to this field, including those women belonging to discriminated minorities;