Traduction de «Association canadienne de sécurité agricole » (Français → Anglais) :

We'll start with Mr. Culbert, for 10 minutes or less, please. Mr. Chair, members of the subcommittee, on behalf of Bioniche Life Sciences, I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you about food safety in Canada.

invest in local food systems in order to boost rural economies and ensure decent jobs, equitable social safety nets and labour rights, to improve arrangements for democratic scrutiny of access to resources, including farmers’ seeds, and to ensure the effective engagement of small-scale producers in policy processes and implementation; stresses in particular that NAFSN must encourage the establishment of domestic processing industries in the agriculture sector and the improvement of food storage techniques, and must strengthen the link between agriculture and trade so as to build local, national and regional markets that benefit family f ...[+++]armers and provide quality food for consumers at accessible prices.

The Commission Communication and Council Conclusions for a Food Security Policy framework highlight the need to involve key stakeholder groups, such as community development groups, farmer organisations and women's associations, in policy making on rural and agricultural development.

23. Urges the G20 to coordinate the creation of preventive mechanisms against the excessive fluctuation of prices and to work towards regulation, specifically designed to tackle food and agricultural crises; calls on the G20 to ensure convergence of food and agricultural commodity regulation and to involve countries that are not part of the G20; asks for solutions to address excessive price volatility to be coordinated at international level; requests that abuses and manipulations of agricultural prices be fought at international level, as they potentially put at risk global food security; condemns ...[+++] the abusive activities of speculators in global commodities, agricultural raw materials and energy that accentuate the volatility of food prices and deepen the global food crisis;

23. Urges the G20 to coordinate the creation of preventive mechanisms against the excessive fluctuation of prices and to work towards regulation, specifically designed to tackle food and agricultural crises; calls on the G20 to ensure convergence of food and agricultural commodity regulation and to involve countries that are not part of the G20; asks for solutions to address excessive price volatility to be coordinated at international level; requests that abuses and manipulations of agricultural prices be fought at international level, as they potentially put at risk global food security; condemns ...[+++] the abusive activities of speculators in global commodities, agricultural raw materials and energy that accentuate the volatility of food prices and deepen the global food crisis;

11. 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;