10 Amendments of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2011/2047(INI)
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls for a review of existing conventions and agreements with developing countries with a view to combating poverty and hunger, and calls for a moratorium on all EU agreements and conventions which impede the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and undermine campaigns against global poverty and hunger;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Recalls that growth strategies should incorporate a long-term vision and be geared comprehensively to developing various sectors of the economy in order to ensure sustainable development and protection against external crises; calls for economic growth to be based on the practical involvement of a majority of the indigenous population and have as its primary aim meeting internal needs rather than continuing with the export fixation which has prevailed hitherto; reaffirms that the overriding aim of growth strategies for developing countries must be to eliminate poverty and hunger, that the focus should be on individuals rather than the interests of corporations and that for this reason the social structure of the country concerned must invariably be taken into account;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Recalls that the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) require special support and attention and that the fixation on export industries, under the influence of the so-called Washington Consensus, has had a fatal impact on those countries; stresses the need for LDCs to protect the sectors of their economies against external competition in order in the first place to make growth possible which is sustainable and meets their own needs;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that EU policies should facilitate growth in areas of the economy where the poor earn their livelihoods, such as agriculture and the informal sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to favour measures which facilitate poor people’s access to land, markets, credits and other financial services and skills development, without aggravating existing inequalities and without consolidating asymmetrical dependence structures;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Recalls that public investment in public goods, infrastructure and services is fundamental to sustainable growth and the effective reduction of inequalities;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Stresses that the industrialised countries have a responsibility to provide more support for investment in, and technology transfer to, indigenous undertakings so that emerging sectors of the economy in developing countries can implement international social and environmental standards; calls for support for measures to facilitate monitoring of compliance by undertakings with international standards;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates its position that the EU should focus its development assistance on promoting sustainable small-scale agricultural production in order to ensure food self-sufficiency of the population as the first objective and to implement the right to food; emphasises the need to ensure, in particular, access for small farmers to the means of production (land, credit, consultancy and advisory services), to processing and marketing opportunities and to local, regional, national and cross- border markets in order to guarantee sales opportunities for their production;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls, in accordance with the IAASTD report, for support for a switch to organic and ecologically sustainable farming, which both takes account of the experience of small-scale farming and constitutes an effective means of adjustment to climate change;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Underlines that facing food insecurity means the implementation of many actions, from diverse sectors, such as the management of local natural resources, the reinforcement of production and manufacturing, training, the structuring of professional organisations, the implementation of a safety net for the most vulnerable, the education on nutrition and also the diversification of rural jobs beyond agriculture to enhance the income of rural families, which are the first victims of hunger;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 h (new)
Paragraph 23 h (new)
23h. Calls on the EU to advocate internationally binding regulations on land purchase which take into account indigenous traditions and arrangements such as the customary right to land use and confer effective rights to protection on occupants affected by land sales; stresses that speculation in food has a direct adverse impact on global hunger and that effective regulations and limits on speculation are therefore indispensable;