(Bio)Fueling Injustice? - Europafrica

ensure that it does no harm to people in developing countries. Such
measures should include a high feedstock-specific indirect land change
use (ILUC) factor guaranteeing firm environmental benefits.
b. Seek guidance on addressing the negative impacts of agrofuels in the
suggestions and recommendations provided by international
organisations and experts, including the FAO and the UN Special
Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Any solution adopted must ensure, as
a minimum, that the policy does not directly (by fostering land-grabbing)
or indirectly (by contributing to food price volatility and raising prices)
affect people and harm human rights in developing countries.
c. Seek to actively involve all relevant EU actors to discuss the EU biofuel
policy, including DG Energy, but also DG Transport, DG Trade, DG
Agriculture, DG Environment, DG Development, the European
Parliament and the EEAS, and objectively review the benefits and of
the EU biofuel policy. Also involve European civil society organisations
and organisations representing those most affected by this policy in
developing countries.
d. Invert the burden of the proof: given the breadth of the evidence
showing the negative impact of the EU policy, it is up to the EU to
demonstrate that its biofuel policy does no harm or has a positive effect,
and, where fundamental principles are not involved, that the positive
effects are able to compensate for their negative effects. Human rights
violations may never be justified.
e. Develop policies that curb energy overconsumption.
3. Fulfil their commitments to address food security and support smallscale
farmers in developing countries
a. Adopt as soon as possible an implementation plan for the policy
framework on food security (COM(2010)127 final), in collaboration with
affected people and interested stakeholders, which supports the
progressive realisation of the right to food.
b. Continue the political dialogue with African farmers´ organisations,
European civil society and African States to strengthen food security in
Africa. In particular, issues such as the right to food, fair access to land
and access to justice should be considered as priorities in high-level
dialogue.
c. Fully and transparently support the African Union Land Policy
Guidelines by helping to involve African farmers´ and pastoralists´
organisations in the design and implementation of these policies at
regional and national levels. EU support to the African Union Land
Policy Guidelines should under no circumstance be used to promote
large scale investment in land.
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