Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 13302 | 02 October 2013

Food security – a permanent challenge for us all

Signatories: Mr Ángel PINTADO, Spain, EPP/CD ; Ms Sílvia Eloïsa BONET PEROT, Andorra, SOC ; Mr Agustín CONDE, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr José Ignacio PALACIOS, Spain, EPP/CD ; Ms Carmen QUINTANILLA, Spain, EPP/CD

Origin - 2013 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 8.1.3, insert the following paragraph:

"enhance irrigation policies in order to improve land productivity in a sustainable way, allowing an increase of food production."

Explanatory note

The demand of food increases all over the world. There are huge areas of land suitable to become irrigated land. It's matter of enhancing new irrigation infrastructure policies to achieve a greater productivity thus reducing hunger. An increase of 50% in rice production is expected to be needed in 2030.