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Would this crisis have been as extensive if the priorities of the developing countries had been given greater consideration in the WTO? If there had been better coordination of the WTO and other international organisations such as the UNDP and the FAO? If our free trade agreements had not encouraged the developing countries to specialise in single crops for export, to the detriment of their traditional subsistence crops and food self-sufficiency? If we had listened to the African countries and supported them in the WTO when they asked that action on the price of basic products be included in the current round of negotiations?

3. Considers that an improvement in access to the Community market might enable the SEMC to optimise part of their agricultural production via an increase in exports; points out, however, that the agriculture sector in the SEMC employs a substantial proportion of the working population and is based principally on small farms (of under 5 ha) typified by low productivity levels; stresses the fact that a sudden and generalised opening-up of agricultural trade with the European Union threatens the survival of these small farms and produ ...[+++]cers of food crops and is liable to exacerbate regional imbalances (acceleration of the rural exodus towards urban and coastal areas) and to sacrifice a multifunctional agriculture sector for the sake of cash crops that are often unsuited to the land and water resources in those countries;

R. whereas, in order to compete with world farm prices, the poorest countries on the planet are encouraged to concentrate on a limited number of products, intended solely for export; whereas the resulting development of monocultures is accompanied by the abandonment of the traditional food crops necessary to feed local populations and a growing dependence on imports of basic products and on uncontrollable fluctuations of world markets,

R. whereas, in order to compete with world farm prices, the poorest countries on the planet are encouraged to concentrate on a limited number of products, intended solely for export; whereas the resulting development of monocultures is accompanied by the abandonment of the traditional food crops necessary to feed local populations and a growing dependence on imports of basic products and on uncontrollable fluctuations of world markets,

S. whereas, in order to compete with world farm prices, the poorest countries on the planet are encouraged to concentrate on a limited number of products, intended solely for export; whereas the resulting development of monocultures is accompanied by the abandonment of the traditional food crops necessary to feed local populations and a growing dependence on imports of basic products and on uncontrollable fluctuations in world markets,

* Member States should ensure that young people acquire basic digital literacy as part of compulsory education, and should also expand digital literacy initiatives to citizens at risk of exclusion [55].