Traduction de «sécurité de l'approvisionnement alimentaire » (Français → Anglais) :

food security | security of food supply

security of food supply

food security [4.7] [ access to food | food availability | food insecurity | food utilisation | stability of food supply ]

energy supply security | security of energy supply | security of supply

security of supply [ availability of supplies | problems of supply | supply difficulties ]

security of supply | security of supplies

food safety

food safety [ food product safety | food quality safety | safety of food | food hygiene(UNBIS) ]

People are poor when they cannot achieve adequate and sustained standards of well-being, in terms of security of food supplies, economic, social and environmental security, civil rights and political empowerment.

7. To stress that food is not merely a commodity and that access to food is a universal human right, and to underline the UNGA’s responsibility to contribute to global food security by allowing and supporting developing countries to increase and diversify their own production, with an emphasis on small-scale, environmentally sustainable and organic farming and on the free use of local seed varieties, in order to become more food-secure and meet demand on their local markets; to call, in this connection, for increased efforts to combat land-grabbing practices by international corporations and to secure respect for the right to land of lo ...[+++]cal populations and indigenous peoples;

Reaffirms that free and fair competition, balanced relations among all actors, freedom to contract, and strong and effective enforcement of the relevant legislation — making it possible to protect all economic actors in the food supply chain, irrespective of geographical location — are of key importance in ensuring the proper functioning of the food supply chain and in guaranteeing food security.

Acknowledges the setting up and development of the SCI, which plays an important role in promoting cultural change and improving business ethics, and which has resulted in the adoption of a set of principles of good practice for vertical relationships in the food supply chain and a voluntary framework for the implementation of those principles which only in the second year of its operation already numbers over one thousand participating companies from across the entire EU, and those mainly SMEs; welcomes the progress made so far, and believes that efforts to promote fair trading practices in the food supply chain should make a real impa ...[+++]ct but cannot currently be considered sufficient to tackle the problem of UTPs in the food supply chain; stresses, however, that the effectiveness of the SCI, as recognised by both the recent Commission report and external evaluation, is undermined by a broad range of shortcomings, such as weaknesses in governance, limitations in transparency, no enforcement measures or penalties, a lack of effective deterrents against UTPs, and not allowing for individual anonymous complaints by potential victims of UTPs or own-initiative investigations by an independent body, which consequently leads to under-representation of SMEs and farmers, in particular, who may find the SCI inadequate for its purpose; recommends the setting up of similar supply chain initiatives in other relevant non-food sectors.