Alfalfa is deeply integrated into the entire organic food and farming system in Canada.

2. Stresses the right of everyone to have access to sufficient safe and nutritious food; calls for a world free from hunger and points out that a genuine fight against hunger requires the establishment of comprehensive policies which enhance sustainable farming and food production systems, so as to improve developing countries' capacity to feed their people; calls on countries to implement the FAO 'Voluntary guidelines for the progressive realisation of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security' and supports the practical application of these guidelines on the basis of the principles of participation, transpar ...[+++]ency and accountability; welcomes the undertakings given in principle at the Rome Summit, but expresses disappointment at the lack of specific financial pledges and the poor attendance by G8 high-level representatives; in this context, calls on all Member States to redouble their commitment to achieving MDG 1 (to halve hunger by 2015) and endorse a global goal to eradicate hunger and malnutrition by 2025 or, failing that, the earliest possible date;

The Commission declares that it will build the service model on the basis of a genuine culture of safety, integrating an effective accident alerting and just culture system as a basis for safety provision.

The joint declaration, which I support, stipulates that the Commission must affirm the need to take human factors duly into account in order effectively to implement the single European sky regulations, must be convinced that safety can never be taken for granted and must recognise the need to further strengthen the culture of safety, in particular by integrating a reliable accident alerting and just culture system, so as to learn from accidents that take place.

For land based biological resources, special emphasis will be placed on low input and organic production systems, improved management of resources and novel feeds, and novel plant cultivation systems with improved composition, resistance to stress, nutrient use efficiency, and architecture.

I think there are really two ways of going at it: one is to use a herbicide less frequently or to use lower doses of herbicides in your overall weed management system, and then the other approach is really not to use a herbicide at all and going into really more of an organic cropping system.