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5 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2016/2222(INI)

Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the urgent need to place the right of access to land and social and environmental valorisation above the purely economics-based logic of maximising profit when designing, evaluating and implementing the various strategies for forestry development;
2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Rejects simplistic concepts and definitions of forest that define forests only as a collection of trees per percentage of area covered, leading to the adoption of equally simplistic concepts of deforestation and reforestation; points out that these approaches have made it possible, for example, for vast palm oil monocultures, which destroy huge areas of tropical forest, to be classified as reforestation;
2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Urges the Member States and Commission to establish a definition of forest that includes biological, social and cultural diversity, so as to prevent monoforestation and give priority to native species, thereby protecting ecosystems, habitats and local communities;
2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Draws attention to the fact that maximizing profits from vast palm oil monocultures (using methods that include the abuse of market power and pricing dominance, the occupation of land, poor working conditions and pesticide use) is incompatible with protecting the environment, combating hunger and guaranteeing and complying with the four basic elements of the human right to food and nutrition - adequacy, availability, accessibility and sustainability;
2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Calls for measures that hinder access to adequate food and nutrition to be rejected and not to be implemented, including measures that hinder access to and use of indigenous resources that are essential to the survival and food sovereignty of local populations, particularly in countries where palm oil is (intensively) produced;
2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE