7 Amendments of Feleknas UCA related to 2008/2153(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas agriculture provides employment and livelihoods for more than 670% of the labour force in developing countries, and for more than 80% in many African countries, and, as a consequence, rural development policies are essential in order to tackle poverty and hunger effectively,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas women produce 60%-80% of food in developing countries and are responsible for half of the world’s food production, whereas women play an extremely important role in caring for their families and whereas women have much less access to land and to means of production than men and must therefore be given appropriate help and support,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that agricultural development must be based primarily on the right to food and the right to produce food, enabling all people to have the right to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food produced using environmentally sound and sustainable methods in an autonomous farming structure;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the European Union to recognise developing countries’ right to food sovereignty and to support this with targeted measures, primarily using and developing the available structures and resources – such as seeds, manure and means of production – as well as fostering regional integration;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the European Union to put agriculture back in the centre of its development agenda, giving specific priority to programmes for agricultural development including clear targets and feasible objectives, particularly measures promoting small-scale agriculture and the production of food for local markets through the use of particular biodiversity;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls the Food Crisis Prevention Network’s 2008 Code of Good Conduct in Food Crisis Prevention and Management, and calls for it to be implemented and observed in the common agricultural policy; furthermore supports and urges involving civil society and promoting the interests of women, small-scale farming cooperatives and producer groups in order to ensure food security and food self-sufficiency;