10. Reiterates the importance of promoting agriculture in the developing world and the importance of allocating an appropriate share of EU overseas development assistance (ODA) to the agriculture sector; regrets that there has been a dramatic reduction in the level of development aid allocated to agriculture since the 1980s and welcomes the recognition of the need to reverse this trend; calls on the Commission to prioritise agriculture in its development aid, including assistance to farmers in accessing markets;

10. Reiterates the importance of promoting agriculture in the developing world and the importance of allocating an appropriate share of EU overseas development assistance (ODA) to the agriculture sector; regrets that there has been a dramatic reduction in the level of development aid allocated to agriculture since the 1980s and welcomes the recognition of the need to reverse this trend; calls on the Commission to prioritise agriculture in its development aid, including assistance to farmers in accessing markets;

6. Reiterates the importance of promoting agriculture in the developing world and the importance of allocating an appropriate share of EU overseas development assistance (ODA) to the agriculture sector; regrets that there has been a dramatic reduction in the level of development aid allocated to agriculture since the 1980s and welcomes the recognition of the need to reverse this trend; calls on the Commission to prioritise agriculture in its development aid, including assistance to farmers in accessing markets;

continued adaptation of the principle of cross-compliance, which promotes sustainable agriculture whilst taking account of society's new requirements.

- encouraging more environmentally responsible farming, including, where appropriate, extensive production methods, integrated farming practices, organic farming and agro-biodiversity, in future reviews of the Common Agricultural Policy, taking account of the need for a balanced approach to the multifunctional role of rural communities.

79. Further urges all parties concerned to recognise that nature protection is not achievable solely through the identification and protection of designated areas, but must also be based on general policies which stimulate sustainable economic activity both in the countryside and in urban areas (including recreational pursuits), encourage environmentally friendly agriculture and forestry and the development of the urban and industrial environments, integrate environmental considerations into the broad range of public policy wherever appropriate, most obviously in relation to ...[+++]transport and energy, reduce overall levels of air- and water-based pollution, preserve soil quality and other natural resources, and discourage forms of economic activity which lead to the destruction of valuable habitats (such as the draining of wetlands); to this end seek ways to avoid the reproduction of problems characteristic of the EU 15, problems associated with intensive farming, monoculture, displacement of agricultural labour, and a failure to take into account the general and economic value of biodiversity; such ways to include, inter alia, the broad exploitation of possibilities to counter such tendencies (and to encourage, for example, the survival of rural communities, smallholdings, traditional and ecologically friendly methods of field division - such as hedges, water channels and dry stone walls - rare breeds of domestic animal, and ecological corridors) offered by existing budgetary measures such as the EAGGF and the Community Instrument LEADER;