Emphasises that the production of biofuels should not interfere with food production or compromise food security; believes, however, that balanced policies to promote increased European yields in feedstock crops such as wheat, maize, sugar beet and sunflowers could include provision for biofuel production, taking account of ILUC, in a way which could provide Europe’s farmers with a secure income stream, attract investment and jobs into rural areas, help address Europe’s chronic shortage of (GM-free) high-protein animal feed, make Europe less dependent on fossil fuel imports; believes that in cases of market oversupply of the agricultur ...[+++]al products referred to, the production of biofuels and bioethanol would represent a temporary outlet which would maintain sustainable purchase prices, safeguard farmers’ incomes during crises, and serve as a market stability mechanism; stresses the need to encourage the integration of uncultivated arable land which is not being used to produce food into the production of bioenergy, with a view to meeting national and European renewable energy objectives.

Her deployment was changed in response to a direct request to our Prime Minister from the United Nations World Food Programme, and Ville de Québec was redirected toward Somalia to provide armed escort to ships chartered by the World Food Programme to deliver aid to Mogadishu.

I do so, I should explain, because I'm sensitized to the question of famine through my own work as a physician and a health and hunger historian (0925) Over 60% of Iraqi civilians, 16 million, depend primarily, many solely, on the monthly food ration system for meagre, subsistence food from an Iraqi government food distribution system made up of a network of 46,000 food ration agents throughout central and southern Iraq.

(12) In order to ensure the safety of food, it is necessary to consider all aspects of the food production chain as a continuum from and including primary production and the production of animal feed up to and including sale or supply of food to the consumer because each element may have a potential impact on food safety.

In order to ensure the safety of food, it is necessary to consider all aspects of the food production chain as a continuum from and including primary production and the production of animal feed up to and including sale or supply of food to the consumer because each element may have a potential impact on food safety.

As coincidence would have it, we have heard from the World Food Programme that although Canada has untied food aid, there has been more procurement in Canada than before because Canadian farmers can compete.