• « La tension monte dans les campagnes », qui attendent leurs saisonniers
    https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/05/15/la-tension-monte-dans-les-campagnes-qui-attendent-leurs-saisonniers_6039760_

    Je n’ai jamais connu de frontières autant fermées, souligne un cadre de la police nationale. Sauf cas exceptionnels validés au plus haut niveau, comme pour le seul ingénieur capable de régler une machine-outil dans une usine de masques, c’est zone d’attente pour tout le monde. » Jusqu’au zèle ? Le 23 avril, le tribunal administratif a annulé le placement en zone d’attente d’une Guinéenne résidant en Belgique et de sa fille de six mois, de nationalité belge, alors qu’elles ne faisaient que transiter par la France pour se rendre en train en Belgique, où la famille réside.En France, la mise sous cloche du territoire génère des tensions. D’après les données de la Mutualité sociale agricole, les travaux agricoles mobilisent plus de 600 000 saisonniers par an, dont 22,6 % d’étrangers. Certains sont déjà installés sur le territoire, d’autres arrivent au gré des récoltes, en particulier en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie et Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur. L’état d’urgence sanitaire a eu pour conséquence d’empêcher leur venue. Pourtant, le 30 mars, la Commission européenne incitait les Etats membres à faciliter le passage des frontières pour les travailleurs agricoles, « indispensables à la sécurité alimentaire de l’UE ». « Ces recommandations n’ont pas de valeur juridique contraignante, souligne Ségolène Barbou des Places, professeure de droit européen à Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. On est sur une atteinte sans précédent à la liberté de circulation des travailleurs, qui est constitutive du marché intérieur. » Courant avril, des pays comme l’Allemagne ou l’Italie ont finalement rouvert leurs frontières aux saisonniers agricoles.

    #Covid-19#migrant#migration#travailleurs-saisonniers#travailleurs-agricoles#urgence-sanitaire#frontière#sécurité-alimentaire

  • Food insecurity in West Africa could leave 43 million at risk as coronavirus hits | | UN News
    https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/106323

    Highlighting people’s vulnerabilities, Babar Baloch from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), described West and central Africa as “one of largest displacement situations in Africa…we are talking about 5.6 million internally displaced people, more than 1.3 million refugees and 1.6 million stateless.”

    #Covid-19#migrant#migration#personnes-déplacées#réfugiés#camp#sécurité-alimentaire#Mali#Burkinafaso#lacThad#Sahel#santé

  • Ca ne sentirait un peu OMC_&_ADPIC le retour ?

    Pas vraiment eu le temps de lire en détail, mais ce genre d’accord pourrait bien essayer de nous faire de l’embrouille sémantique sur divers sujets.. genre #OGM, #sécurité-alimentaire, ou #propriété-intellectuelle. Je ne suis pas parano, c’est juste mon radar interne qui fait biiiiiiip

    European Commission adopts draft negotiating mandate for EU-US Trade Talks

    The European Commission today agreed the draft mandate for the
    #Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership_Agreement with the United
    States, effectively firing the starting gun for what is hoped to be a
    relatively quick negotiation. The draft mandate will now be sent to the
    Council for the Member States to approve it before negotiations can
    start.

    /Speaking at a press conference after the College meeting, EU Trade
    Commissioner Karel De Gucht said/:

    /“This key step to gearing up to the actual start of negotiations comes
    just one month after the initial announcement by Presidents Obama,
    Barroso and Van Rompuy to go for this ground-breaking trade deal. I hope
    that Member States will decide quickly to open negotiations so we can
    begin work ahead of the summer break.” /

    /“Let me also take this opportunity ’to lay to rest’ some persistent
    concerns and rumors. It is true that Europe and the US have differing
    views on some core issues regarding, for example, food safety. Take
    GMOs: we each have different views today and we will have different
    views after the negotiations. However, a future deal will not change the
    existing GMO legislation in Europe; let me repeat - “no change”./

    /I am also fully aware of the sensitivities on certain issues including
    the audiovisual sector and of course this will be duly taken into
    account during the negotiations which, I should add, have not started
    yet. We are still at an early stage in this process./

    /The agreement will not force a change of current practices in the
    Member States. Member States will continue to be able to support their
    cultural industries and the audiovisual sector in particular, such as
    through broadcasting quota or subsidies, as foreseen in the current EU
    directives."/

    /“An ambitious and comprehensive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment
    Partnership could bring significant economic gains as a whole for the EU
    – estimated at €119 billion euros a year - and for the US around €95
    billion euros a year once the agreement is fully implemented. This
    translates to an extra - on average - €545 euros in disposable income
    each year for a family of four living in the EU.”/

  • Deux organisations non gouvernementales, le Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) de Belgique et le Réseau Santé Environnement (RES) ont révélé aujourd’hui par un communiqué de presse les liens de deux experts de l’Autorité Européenne de Sécurité des Aliments (AESA) avec l’industrie agroalimentaire.

    NGOs demand dismissal of two EFSA experts who failed to declare food industry links | Corporate Europe Observatory
    http://www.corporateeurope.org/pressreleases/ngos-demand-dismissal-two-efsa-experts-who-failed-declare-food-indu

    New research has today revealed further conflicts of interest among experts advising the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) about the safety of food additives, including aspartame [1].
    Research by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Réseau Environnement Santé/French Network on Health and Environment (RES) found that two of the new experts appointed by EFSA to the panel responsible for looking at food additives have failed to declare consulting activities for the food industry-funded think tank and lobby group International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI).

    CEO and RES have written to EFSA to demand the dismissal of the two experts. They have also written to EU Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič to urge tighter new rules governing conflicts of interest within the EU’s agencies [2].

    According to the new research, Riccardo Crebelli, a research director at the Italian Institute of Health, and Ursula Gundert-Remy, a former medical expert at the German Institute for Risk Assessment, have both acted as advisers for ILSI in the past five years. Gundert-Remy was appointed a scientific adviser at the ILSI Research Foundation in Washington in 2005, and Crebelli was a member of a scientific committee on the safety of food packaging set up by ILSI in 2008.

    #sécurité-alimentaire #conflit-d-intérêts