AMENDMENTS 1 -69 · poverty, food insecurity, poor water, sanitation and health services, the roots...

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ACP-EU JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLÉE PARLEMENTAIRE PARITAIRE ACP-UE

Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment

06.11.2014 AP101.717/AA1-69

AMENDMENTS1 - 69

Draft report (AP/101.717)on the social and economic consequences of malnutrition in ACP countries

Co-rapporteurs: Alban Bagbin (Ghana) and Norbert Neuser

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Amendment 1Marielle De Sarnez

Motion for a resolutionCitation 7a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

– having regard to the appeal for action against child malnutrition to be stepped up that was launched by European and African parliamentarians on 8 June 2013,

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Amendment 2Anna Záborská

Motion for a resolutionRecital A


A. whereas malnutrition encompasses both over-nutrition and under-nutrition and has direct negative consequences in terms of disease and disability, brain development, educational attainment and income potential for individuals and communities,

A. whereas malnutrition encompasses both over-nutrition and under-nutrition and has direct negative consequences in terms of disease and disability, brain development, educational attainment, jobperspective and income potential for individuals and communities,

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Amendment 3Catherine Bearder

Motion for a resolutionRecital Aa (new)


Aa. whereas, according to FAO,

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approximately 2 billion of people do not consume enough micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, which can lead to malnutrition,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas malnutrition is influenced by a host of underlying factors related to poverty, food insecurity, poor water, sanitation and health services, the roots of which may be due to scarce natural resources, poor governance, conflict, climate change, demographic growth, and high and volatile food prices,

B. whereas malnutrition is influenced by a host of underlying factors related to poverty, food insecurity, poor water, sanitation and health services, the roots of which may be due to scarce natural resources, poor governance, conflict, climate change, demographic growth, export subventions damaging local markets and high and volatile food prices,

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Amendment 5Kashetu KyengeMotion for a resolutionRecital B



B. whereas malnutrition is influenced by a host of underlying factors related to poverty, food insecurity, poor water, sanitation and health services, the roots of which may be due to scarce natural resources, poor governance, conflict, climate change, demographic growth, and high and volatile food prices and under-investment in family farms producing food for local consumption,

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Amendment 6Javier Nart

Motion for a resolutionRecital B



B. whereas malnutrition is influenced by a host of underlying factors related to poverty, food insecurity, poor water, sanitation and health services, the roots of which may be due to scarce natural resources, poor governance, conflict, climate change, demographic growth, and high and volatile food prices, and that especially in African ACP countries, particularly Sahel populations are threatened by drought, desertification, lack of minimum services of education and health and isolation and bad communication,

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Amendment 7Norbert Neuser

Motion for a resolutionRecital C


C. whereas many ACP countries are confronted with a double burden ofmalnutrition, whereby under-nutrition and obesity are found within the samecommunity or even the same household, particularly in urban settings, andwhereas under-nutrition traps individuals and society in a vicious circle ofpoverty,

C. whereas malnutrition includes as consequence not only undernutrition but also obesity that both affect health and development negatively; whereas undernutrition is most prevalent in sub-Saharan African countries due to food shortage and whereas as result of a poverty-related unhealthy diet in other regions obesity occurs next to

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undernutrition in ACP countries in general,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital C


C. whereas many ACP countries are confronted with a double burden of malnutrition, whereby under-nutrition and obesity are found within the same community or even the same household, particularly in urban settings, and whereas under-nutrition traps individuals and society in a vicious circle of poverty,

C. whereas many ACP countries are confronted with a double burden of malnutrition related to both the lack of sufficient calorie intake and the deficiency of nutrients and vitamins necessary for a healthy diet; whereas malnutrition in all its forms traps individuals and society in a vicious cycle of poverty,

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Amendment 9Kashetu Kyenge and Michèle Rivasi

Motion for a resolutionRecital Ca (new)


Ca. whereas the most marginalised groups in society such as women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities are more vulnerable to malnutrition and its negative consequences,

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Amendment 10Mariya Gabriel

Motion for a resolutionRecital D


D. whereas the causes and consequences of malnutrition are multi-faceted and hence require an integrated response to scale up direct nutrition-specific interventions focusing on pregnant women and children aged less than two years and the development of broader nutrition sensitive development policies,

D. whereas the causes and consequences of malnutrition are multi-faceted and hence require an integrated response to scale up direct nutrition-specific interventions focusing on pregnant women and children aged less than two years and the development of broader nutrition sensitive development policies; whereas, although women are a particularly vulnerable group in which persistent undernourishment results in problems of low weight and nutritional deficiencies being handed down from one generation to the next, they play a key role in improving the diet of families, and thereby of children, when income levels rise,

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Amendment 11Kashetu Kyenge

Motion for a resolutionRecital D


D. whereas the causes and consequences of malnutrition are multi-faceted and hencerequire an integrated response to scale up direct nutrition-specific interventions focusing on pregnant women and children aged less than two years and the development of broader nutrition sensitive development policies,

D. whereas the causes and consequences of malnutrition are multi-faceted and require multi-sectoral, inclusive responses which, in the short and longer terms need to become part of broader strategies for realising the right to food (availability, accessibility and appropriateness of food) in order to scale up direct nutrition-specific interventions focusing on pregnant women and children aged less than two

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years and the development of broader nutrition sensitive development policies,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital E


E. whereas long-term insufficient nutrient intake and frequent infections can cause stunting, the effects of which in terms of delayed motor and cognitive development are largely irreversible, and whereas malnourished women and girls of reproductive age have higher chances of giving birth to smaller babies (in terms of weight and height),

E. whereas long-term insufficient nutrient intake and frequent infections can cause stunting, the effects of which in terms of delayed motor and cognitive development are largely irreversible; whereas periods of food shortage and untreated common diseases as diarrhoea and pneumonia can lead to wasting and subsequently even to death and whereas malnourished women and girls of reproductive age have higher chances of giving birth to smaller babies (in terms of weight and height),

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Amendment 13Marielle de Sarnez

Motion for a resolutionRecital Ea (new)


Ea. whereas undernourishment is the root cause of 45% of deaths in the under-five age group,

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Amendment 14Davor Ivo Stier

Motion for a resolutionRecital K


K. whereas the period from pregnancy to a child’s second birthday – the first 1000 days – is considered to be the most critical in preventing under-nutrition and its consequences throughout adulthood,

K. whereas it is considered that the most critical period for preventing under-nutrition and its consequences throughout adulthood are the first 1000 days of a child’s life, including pregnancy,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital Ka (new)


Ka. whereas since 1997, the FAO states that diversity of crops has decreased by 75% during the twentieth century and that today one third of the diversity could disappear by 2050; whereas only 30 crops provide 90% of calories in the human consumption and only three plant species (rice, wheat, corn) account for more than half of the human caloric consumption,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital L

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L. whereas the private sector, especially the food industry, has a substantial potential to contribute to the multi-stakeholders efforts of improving nutrition,

L. whereas the private sector, especially the food industry, has a substantial potential to contribute to the multi-stakeholders efforts of improving nutrition; whereas, however, private-sector efforts must form part of broader strategies for combating malnutrition that are underpinned by the right to food, and must be regulated accordingly,

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Amendment 17Louis Michel

Motion for a resolutionRecital L


L. whereas the private sector, especially the food industry, has substantial potential to contribute to multi-stakeholder efforts to improve nutrition,

L. whereas the private sector, including both global and national food companies as well as small scale actors such as entrepreneurs, farmers and market trades, has substantial potential to contribute to multi-stakeholder efforts to improve nutrition,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital La (new)


La. whereas food and nutritional security can be achieved only through sustainable local, regional and sub-regional agri-food

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systems based on a family farming model in which access to the means of production (land, tools, credit, etc.) is guaranteed and which is small-scale, diverse and local and geared to feeding local communities first,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital La (new)


La. whereas there is an increasing recognition that a large burden of malnutrition sits with the moderately and chronically malnourished which is leading to a new orientation from a unique focus on treatment, to one that includes prevention,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital Ma (new)


Ma. whereas in many developing countries there is an overreliance on wild caught protein (bushmeat) which is unsustainable, unreported and diminishing, which in turn could point to a potentially protein free diet in the near future which will further exacerbate malnutrition,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital Na (new)


Na. whereas in the fight against malnutrition it is of utmost importance to involve families and local communities in order to reach out even to very remote areas where state structures are weak or not functioning,

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Na. whereas these critical investments in public health need to be matched by reforms to food systems and a concerted global effort to fix the global food system, led by governments but involving key actors such as the private sector, civil society and communities,

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Amendment 23Catherine Bearder,


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Na. whereas in arid and semi-arid areas pastoralism is more productive than sedentary livestock farming in terms of production of meat per hectare and calories per hectare, and whereas it therefore helps to feed communities and enhance food and nutrition security and resilience; whereas pastoralists’ mobility, adapting more easily to climate change than sedentary livestock, could lead to increased food security,

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Amendment 24Laura Agea and Piernicola Pedicini



Na. whereas 50 of the 79 ACP States are coastal countries and more than 60 of them export fish and fisheries products to regional and international markets,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital Nb (new)


Nb. whereas the EU’s development cooperation policy and common fisheries policy must be consistent, complementary and properly coordinated,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital Nc (new)


Nc. whereas the governments of ACP States afford EU fishing vessels an unsustainable level of access to fishing opportunities,

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Motion for a resolutionRecital Nd (new)


Nd. whereas ACP States’ fisheries resources are exploited beyond a sustainable level, with virtually no benefit for local people in terms of consumption and commercial exploitation of the protein resources generated by fishing,

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 1

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1. Urges the ACP countries to institute a specific and fully funded budget line for nutrition-specific interventions in their annual national budgets;

1. Urges the ACP countries to institute a specific and fully funded budget line for nutrition-specific interventions targeting all people, including the most marginalised, such as women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities in their annual national budgets;

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2. Encourages the EU to fulfil its commitment to supporting partner countries in reducing by seven million the number of children under the age of five who suffer from stunting by 2015;

2. Encourages the EU to fulfil its commitment to supporting partner countries in reducing by seven million the number of children under the age of five who suffer from stunting by 2015, to support primary healthcare and take need-based action to mitigate periods of food crisis to counter wasting and, where indicated, combine wasting and stunting reduction strategies;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 2a (new)


2a. Encourages greater investment in proven and scalable interventions which

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can fortify and complement people’s diets, where lacking in vital nutrients -including building on and renewing existing programs, and committing new resources to establish programmes where they do not exist. This includes focusing on interventions like the fortification of staple foods and condiments through micronutrient fortification;

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3. Urges the ACP countries to integrate the fight against malnutrition into all related development policy areas, and in particular primary health care programmes;

3. Urges the ACP countries to integrate the fight against malnutrition into all related development policy areas, and in particular agriculture and primary healthcare programmes and this in the frame of a more comprehensive approach targeting the achievement of the right to food, while making sure to include the most marginalised such as women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities in these policies and programmes, and to check the consistency of other policies with the objectives in the area of nutrition;

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3a. Draws attention to the close relationship in some countries between undernourishment, malnutrition and access to drinking water, and calls for governments and the international community to continue their efforts to ensure that people have access to drinking water in both urban and rural areas;

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3a. Urges the international community to defend a bottom-up approach, to defend and promote local economies and trade that can support local producers; underlines that international trade rules must allow policy space to support livelihoods and jobs where people live and ensure food is at all times available locally;

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Amendment 34Pavel Telička



3a. Calls on the European Commission with the help of ACP countries to

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implement the commitments of the Communication ‘Enhancing Maternal and Child Nutrition in external assistance: an EU policy framework’ of March 2013 to reduce the number of children under five who are stunted by at least 10% by 2025, but also to address the crucial issue of severe acute malnutrition;

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4. Stresses the need for leadership, commitment and accountability at national and international level in earmarking and promoting investments that are sustainable in addressing long-term nutrition agendas in ACP countries;

4. Stresses the need for leadership, commitment and accountability at national and international level in earmarking and promoting investments that are sustainable in addressing long-term nutrition agendas in ACP countries; fully supports the role of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) that will improve coordination and governance of the global food system;

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4a. Draws attention to the undertaking made by the ACP States to channel 10% of their domestic budgets into developing farming, and in this connection urges

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them to give priority to family farms producing food for local consumption, with a view to attaining sustainable food security for their peoples;

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4a. Establishes that the aid that is sent to these countries as food supplies should be sent only in case of urgency since these food supplies can lead to the destruction of local economies since they contribute both to corruption and dumping;

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4a. Points to the need for a global, coordinated political response to the problem of malnutrition; recommends that the ACP States should include explicit nutritional targets in their agricultural, health, education, economic and welfare policies;

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5. Stresses the need for transparent and efficiently-enforceable legislative and regulatory frameworks governing the responsibility of the food industry in ACP countries in providing nutrition-sensitive products;

5. Stresses the need for transparent and efficiently-enforceable legislative and regulatory frameworks governing the responsibility of the food industry in ACP countries in providing nutrition-sensitive products, in keeping with the right-to-food approach and its underlying principles;

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5a. Stresses that the private sector can play a major role in complementing public investment quality however it is necessary to encourage investment in African agriculture based on self-sufficiency; expresses its concern with the fact that both land-grabbing and large scale agro- industries can be a threat to local populations and productions since they can lead to overexploitation in short term of the wealth of the land that will be abandoned later on, to the destruction of natural circuits and the expulsion of local populations from their land with the consequent desertion of their crops; states that land-grabbing and large scale industries when taking place, should accordingly be made avoiding the

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aforementioned;

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7. Calls on the ACP countries to establish or strengthen transparent and publicly shared information systems on the effects and remedies of malnutrition, and to facilitate decision making for improved nutrition outcomes;

7. Calls on the ACP countries to establish or strengthen transparent accessible and publicly shared information systems on the effects and remedies of malnutrition, and to facilitate decision making for improved nutrition outcomes;

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7. Calls on the ACP countries to establish or strengthen transparent and publicly shared information systems on the effects and remedies of malnutrition, and to facilitate decision making for improved nutrition outcomes;

7. Calls on the ACP countries to establish or strengthen transparent and publicly shared information systems on the effects and remedies of malnutrition, and to facilitate decision making for improved nutrition outcomes taking into account the recommendations of the World Health Organisation; calls on the ACP countries to enable and promote healthy diets, alongside access to adequate food in sufficient quantity and quality of food. Diversity of nutrition must be supported and local food systems strengthened;

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7a. Calls on the European Commission and ACP countries to take concrete actions to address severe acute malnutrition, and to recognise it as a development priority and not just a humanitarian issue;

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8a. Stresses that ACP countries will face in the next decades an important demographic boost ; this boost can be an opportunity, but also a burden if nothing is done especially in child development and education and the fight against severe acute malnutrition which affects first of all children;

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9. Encourages the stimulation of partnerships between governments, donors, private sectors and the civil society in scaling up nutrition interventions at the community and national levels, particularly through the Scale Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement;

9. Encourages the stimulation of partnerships between governments, donors, private sectors and the civil society, in particular farmers’ organisations, in scaling up nutrition interventions at the community and national levels, particularly through the Scale Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement;

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9. Encourages the stimulation of partnerships between governments, donors, the private sector and civil society in scaling up nutrition interventions at community and national level, in particular through the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement;

9. Encourages the stimulation of partnerships between governments, donors, the private sector and civil society in scaling up nutrition interventions at community and national level, in particular through the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement with backbone structures to facilitate, support and coordinate action;

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9a. reiterates the importance of securing all existing land rights to ensure the strengthening of family agriculture, and

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to resist land grabbing by external companies that further burden food security;

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10. Calls on ACP countries to involve women in the decision-making process with regards to national and international responses to national and global challenges to food security and nutrition;

10. Calls on ACP countries to involve women and persons with disabilities in the decision-making process with regards to national and international responses to national and global challenges to food security and nutrition, and calls on the ACP States to mainstream gender in nutrition policies and give women better guarantees of access to resources, education and social services;

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10a. Calls on the ACP countries and donors to acknowledge the importance of solidarity between generations in overcoming hunger and extreme poverty; stresses the importance of the unpaid work of mothers as carers and their key role in all nutrition interventions;

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12. Urges development partners, including the EU, to provide technical assistance to ACP countries to strengthen their national nutrition plans and programmes with a strong focus on human resources capacity building for health;

12. Urges development partners, including the EU, to provide technical assistance to ACP countries to strengthen their national multisectorial nutrition plans and programmes with a strong focus on human resources capacity building for health;

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12a. Calls on the EU to tie humanitarian aid operations more closely into development policies addressing the structural causes of malnutrition and to ensure that nutritional impact assessments are carried out on development-cooperation agricultural projects;

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13.Calls on the ACP countries to design and put in place or strengthen comprehensive, nationally owned social protection and health care systems which focus on food security and nutrition, and which ensure active and inclusive multi-stakeholder participation and promote wide access to their services and to affordable and nutritious food products;

13. Calls on the ACP countries to design and put in place or strengthen comprehensive and inclusive nationally owned social protection and health care systems which focus on food security and nutrition, and which ensure active and inclusive multi-stakeholder participation and promote wide access to their services and to affordable and nutritious food products;

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13. Calls on the ACP countries to design and put in place or strengthen comprehensive, nationally owned social protection and health care systems which focus on food security and nutrition, and which ensure active and inclusive multi-stakeholder participation and promote wide access to their services and to affordable and nutritious food products;

13. Calls on the ACP countries to design and put in place or strengthen comprehensive, nationally owned social protection and health care systems which focus on food security and nutrition, and which ensure active and inclusive multi-stakeholder participation and promote wide access to their services and to affordable and nutritious food products as well as access to water and sanitation facilities;

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14. Call on the ACP countries and the EU Member States to include the improvement of the nutritional status of women, adolescent girls, infants and children, taking account of hidden hunger and micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity as a new manifestation of malnutrition, as an explicit goal and expected outcome of agriculture, food security and nutrition-related programmes, emergency responses, strategies and policies, from design toimplementation;

14. Call on the ACP countries and the EU Member States to include the improvement of the nutritional status of women, adolescent girls, infants and children, taking account of hidden hunger and micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity as a new manifestation of malnutrition, as an explicit goal and expected outcome of agriculture, food security and nutrition-related programmes, emergency responses, strategies and policies, from design to implementation, moreover to promote breastfeeding and adequate complementary feeding, to make deworming interventions and therapeutic feeding interventions available;

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14. Calls on the ACP countries and the EU Member States to include the improvement of the nutritional status of women, adolescent girls, infants and children, taking account of hidden hunger and micronutrient deficiencies and obesity as a new manifestation of malnutrition, as an explicit goal and expected outcome of agriculture, food security and nutrition related-programmes, emergency responses strategies and policies, from design to implementation;

14. Calls on the ACP countries and the EU Member States to include the improvement of the nutritional status of women, adolescent girls, infants and children, taking account of hidden hunger andmicronutrient deficiencies and obesity as a new manifestation of malnutrition and poor nutrition, as an explicit goal;

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14a. Calls on the ACP countries and the EU Member States to include family mainstreaming in all strategies and programmes addressing malnutrition in order to improve their reach and efficiency;

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14a. Calls on the ACP countries and the EU Member States to include the improvement of the nutritional status of the most marginalised groups in society, including the elderly and persons with disabilities, as an explicit goal and expected outcome of agriculture, food security and nutrition-related programmes, emergency responses, strategies and policies, from design to implementation;

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14a. Stresses that special focus should be put on Small Island Developing States which have varied geography, climate, culture and stage of economic development, but face common challenges to achieve sustainable development; recalls that even though in these islands, the percentage of undernourished population is declining, adequate nutrition remains an issue of consumption and dependency on processed foods, leading to higher rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes;

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14a. Stresses that efforts to combat malnutrition must go hand-in-hand with prevention and treatment strategies combining early treatment of the principal fatal diseases, distribution of ready-to-use complementary foods and more widespread vaccination programmes;

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15. Calls on the ACP countries, the EU Member States and the international community to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda enshrines the fight against all forms of malnutrition as a priority goal;

15. Calls on the ACP countries, the EU Member States and the international community to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda enshrines the fight against all forms of malnutrition as a priority goal; given the importance of nutrition to other development goals, calls on these actors to push for the integration of nutrition throughout other relevant targets;

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15. 15. Calls on ACP States, the EU Member States and the International Community, to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda enshrines the fight against all forms of malnutrition at the top of its goals;

15. Calls on ACP States, the EU Member States and the International Community, to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda enshrines the fight against all forms of malnutrition at the top of its goals, drawing on the lessons learned from action to date in pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Goal 1;

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Amendment 62Davor Ivo Stier



15. Calls on the ACP countries, the EU 15. Calls on the ACP countries, the EU

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Member States and the international community to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda enshrines the fight against all forms of malnutrition as a priority goal;

Member States and the international community to ensure that the globaldevelopment framework after 2015 includes ambitious targets related tofighting malnutrition;

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15. Calls on the ACP countries, the EU Member States and the international community to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda enshrines the fight against all forms of malnutrition as a priority goal;

15. Calls on the ACP countries, the EU Member States and the international community to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda enshrines the fight against all forms of malnutrition as a priority target;

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15a. Calls on the ACP governments and the EU working together to plan agriculture, including wild caught protein production, food security and nutrition related-programmes, emergency responses strategies and policies, from design to implementation;

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15a. Calls for EU-registered and EU-owned vessels fishing in ACP States’ waters not to be granted access to the resources of those States unless it has been scientifically proved that there is a surplus;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 15b (new)


15b. Calls for the EU to ensure that its vessels only use fishing methods and gears that are suited to the type and volume of resources to be exploited and that a portion of catches will be set aside for local consumption in ACP States;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 15c (new)


15c. Calls for the EU to provide specific support under its development aid budget

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for the populations of the ACP States in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which are almost entirely dependent on fishing, both for their incomes and for the supply of protein required in order to improve their own –– and, above all, their children's –health;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 15d (new)


15d. Calls on the ACP and EU states fully to acknowledge the fact that fishing can help to solve the problem of malnutrition and is helping to prevent famine in the ACP States;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 15e (new)


15e. Calls on ACP coastal States not to agree to the inclusion in international fisheries agreements of clauses that undermine the right of ACP peoples to use local fisheries resources as a means of addressing the problem of malnutrition;

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