21 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2015/2277(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
– having regard to the Declaration of the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles, delivered at the World Social Forum in Tunis, in March 20151a; __________________ 1a http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/mai n-issues-mainmenu-27/agrarian-reform- mainmenu-36/1775-declaration-of-the- global-convergence-of-land-and-water- struggles
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 a (new)
Citation 35 a (new)
– having regard to the African Civil Society Demands for the Inclusion of Food Sovereignty and the Right to Food in the Germany G7 Presidency Agenda in June 20151a; __________________ 1ahttp://afsafrica.org/wp- content/uploads/2015/05/AFSA- Demands-to-the-Germany-G7- Presidency-Agenda.pdf
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 a (new)
Citation 35 a (new)
– having regard to the Milan Charter 1 a, which was presented at Expo 2015 under the theme Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life and signed by more than one million heads of state, governments and private individuals and which calls on all associations, businesses, national and international institutions and private individuals to take responsibility for ensuring that future generations may enjoy their right to food and includes binding commitments to guarantee that right throughout the world, __________________ 1ahttp://carta.milano.it/wp- content/uploads/2015/04/English_version _Milan_Charter.pdf
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 b (new)
Citation 35 b (new)
– having regard to the fact that the UN Committee on World Food Security is the adequate forum for agreement to policy guidance on this issue internationally and it is in this forum that all concerned parties have a voice;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 b (new)
Citation 35 b (new)
– having regard to the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact of 15 October 20151 a put forward by Milan City Council and signed by 113 cities around the world, which was submitted to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, and illustrates the key role played by cities in food policy making, __________________ 1ahttp://www.foodpolicymilano.org/wp- content/uploads/2015/10/Milan-Urban- Food-Policy-Pact-EN.pdf
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the agreements on NASFN do not contain any concrete indicator on hunger and malnutrition;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas, by 2050, 70% of the world's population will live in cities and a combined global and local approach to nutrition will be more necessary than ever before;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that several CCFs focus on the development of special economic areas with the goal of maximising investments through initiatives ranging from road or energy infrastructure to tax, customs or land tenure regimes; stresses the need also to improve and ensure focus on access to water , scaling up Nutrition-Education and sharing best practice strategies;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Observes that agricultural investment policies tend to encourage large-scale land acquisitions and focus on export-oriented agriculture that is usually unrelated to local economies; accordingly, questions the ability of mega-PPPs to contribute to poverty reduction and food security; recalls that the FAO Tenure Guidelines recommend to secure access to land to allow families to produce food for household consumption and to increase household income; stresses the need to base large-scale land based investment in Africa on these guidelines, ensuring smallholder and local communities' access to land, promoting local SME investment and ensuring that PPPs contribute to food security and to reducing poverty and inequality;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Criticizes the assumption under which corporate investment in agriculture automatically improve food and security nutrition and reduce poverty;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on governments and donors to suspend or review all policies, projects and consultancy arrangements that directly encourage and facilitate land grabbing by supporting highly harmful projects and investments or indirectly increase pressure on land and natural resources and can result in serious human rights violations; calls for support to be given instead to policies which protect and assign priority to small-scale food producers, particularly women, and promote the sustainable use of land;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for the EU to work with the United Nations towards the adoption by all countries, on a binding basis, of the Milan Charter and the commitments it contains;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Calls for the EU to work with the United Nations towards the adoption and dissemination of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Underlines the need to have small- scale food producers at leading positions, allowing their own independent organizations to support them in controlling their land, natural resources and programs;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the governments of the countries concerned to ensure that the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is observed for all communities affected by land grabbing and that consultations are held in order to ensure the equal participation of all local community groups, in particular those that are most vulnerable and marginalised;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the governments of the countries concerned to ensure that firms carefully analyse the impact of their activities on human rights (due diligence) by conducting and publishing independent prior assessments of their impact on human, social and environmental rights and improving and ensuring access to domestic human rights complaints processes that are independent, transparent, reliable and appealable;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Supports the development of policies conducive to sustainable family farming and to encourage governments to establish enabling environment (conducive policies, adequate legislation, participatory planning for a policy dialogue, investments) for the development of family farming;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses the importance to promote programmes of nutrition education in the schools and in the local communities;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Stresses that the right to water goes hand-in-hand with the right to food and that the UN resolution of 2010 has not yet resulted in decisive action to establish the right to water as a human right; calls on the EU to consider the proposal of the Italian Committee for a World Water Contract (CICMA) for an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Demands the need to support local policies aimed to grant a consistent and sustainable access to a diverse and nutritious diet, following the principle of ownership and subsidiarity;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Recalls the need to promote alternatives for the provision of public services and infrastructure to support rural communities and local markets;