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"I voted in favour of this resolution because recent food and commodity price volatility has raised serious concerns about the functioning of European and global food supply chains and has increased insecurity as regards farm incomes and long-term investments by farmers. Furthermore, farmers’ income problems are continuing to worsen and the prices paid by consumers for products are not reflected in the prices paid to farmers for their production, which is undermining farmers’ capacity to invest and innovate. This might make many farmers decide to leave farming. The problem of imbalances in the food supply chain therefore has a clear European dimension, which calls for a specific European solution. Attention should be drawn to the fact that agricultural policy must enable small and medium-sized farms, including family farms, to earn a reasonable income, to produce sufficient food of appropriate quality at affordable prices, to create jobs, to promote rural development and to ensure environmental protection and sustainability. The European Parliament therefore calls on national and European competition authorities and other regulatory authorities involved in production and commerce to take action against abusive buyer practices on the part of dominant wholesalers and retailers, which systematically put farmers in an extremely unfavourable negotiating position."@en1
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