Traduction de «Régime de gestion des terres des Premières Nations » (Français → Anglais) :

For example, I was proud to announce last week the addition of 18 first nations to the first nations land management regime and to sign the framework agreement for self-government negotiations with the Whitecap Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan.

204. Calls for concerted EU action to address the problem of land-grabbing through the promotion of adequate safeguards to prevent it in the countries concerned and among EU and other European companies present in those countries; notes that the denial of access to land and natural resources to the rural and urban poor is one of the key causes of hunger and poverty in the world, thereby having an impact on the local communities’ enjoyment of their human rights, and particularly on their right to adequate food; calls for an assessment of the impact of EU trade policy on land-grabbing; welcomes the EU’s involvement in the development of ...[+++] the global Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, adopted under the aegis of the UN, and calls for their implementation and for the adoption of binding guidelines for preventing land-grabbing; emphasises, nevertheless, the urgent need to mainstream human rights and poverty reduction considerations in decision-making regarding the acquisition or long-term lease of large areas of land by investors; considers the EU’s response to this issue to be an important test of its commitment to moving toward a rights-based approach in its development cooperation policy, as envisioned in the Lisbon Treaty and through which the EU's development policy would further contribute to the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of developing countries, with the primary aim of eradicating poverty in the world; calls for the EU to commit, in line with the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, to a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology as a means of guaranteeing the right to food;

– having regard to the declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted in Rome in 2010, to the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment that Respects Rights, Livelihoods and Resources (PRAI), and to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT),

12. Calls on the Government of Myanmar/Burma to ensure that farmers and communities are protected from land confiscation and forced evictions, in line with international standards; notes concerns about the Constitution, the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Law, which allows the government to confiscate land for any project that it claims to be of ‘national interest’ and permits it to use all ’vacant’ lands, some of which are occupied and provide a livelihood for communities; further notes that well-connected business people are pursuing legal action ...[+++] to register such land in their own names;

7. Calls on the Government of Burma/Myanmar to ensure that farmers and communities are protected from land confiscation and forced evictions, in line with international standards; notes concerns about the Constitution, the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Law, which allows the government to confiscate land for any project that it claims to be of ‘national interest’ and permits it to use all ‘vacant’ lands, some of which are occupied and provide a livelihood for communities; further notes that well-connected business people are pursuing legal action ...[+++] to register such land in their own names;

27. Considers that direct payments should be reserved only for active farmers; realises that, under the system of decoupled direct payments, each farmer who uses farmland for production and maintains GAEC should receive direct payments; calls on the Commission therefore to devise a definition of ‘active farmer’ which the Member States can administer without additional administrative effort or expenditure, while it should be ensured that traditional farming activities (full-time and various ...[+++] degrees of part-time), regardless of legal status, are classified as active farming and that the range of land tenure and various forms of land management arrangements as well as management of common land are taken into account; considers it necessary to specify that the definition of an active farmer should exclude cases in which the administrative costs of making a payment are higher than the actual amount of the payment itself;