3 Amendments of Alojz PETERLE related to 2008/2153(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes it crucial to avoid disruptive competitive scrambles for scarce food resources; therefore calls for more effective EU coordination with non-governmental organisations, the Food and Agriculture Organization and other international agencies at a technical level and with the UN at a political level to promote fair access to global food resources and to increase food production in key developing countries while consistently taking into account biodiversity and sustainable development criteria;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the EU to help countries at risk of conflict to develop strong agricultural policies of their own based on easy access to raw materials, quality education and adequate funding, as well as on reliable infrastructure; believes that EU aid in support of this can result inshould be targeted at improveding food self- sufficiency for recipient developing countries, and therefore betterwhich will improve regional food security and access to food for the poorest sections of society;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that rising food prices and accelerated development in the field of biotechnology must not lead to an environmentally less sensitive stance on the use of genetically modified food;