Στοιχεία της γνωμοδότησης 

Greater involvement of local suppliers of food, fertilizers and energy in the establishment of emergency and global stocks;
Rural areas play a strategic role for climate and food security, with local food value chains providing stabler incomes while involving small farms;
More diverse local food production to safeguard EU food security
Investment needed in sustainable and high-quality local production
development and implementation of a long-term strategy to ensure basic food security, including at regional level; funding projects aimed at increasing food security at regional level to ensure the security of local communities; changes in the CAP of a more structural nature

THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS

- stresses the urgent need to address the weaknesses of EU countries' food systems in order to introduce profound and structural changes and prepare for future crises;

- strongly supports the willingness to enhance the EU's food sovereignty and achieve greater autonomy by encouraging regional and local diverse food production;

- stresses that the EU's actions in the area of food security [...] should be used not only to address the current problem, but to bring about changes in the Common Agricultural Policy of a more structural nature in order to improve quality of life and the competitiveness of the EU economy, and also to achieve significant environmental benefits in areas related to food supply;

- calls on the European Commission to complete this work on food security contingency plans in order to develop and implement a long-term strategy to ensure basic food security at regional level [...]; suggests, in this connection, the widespread use of local food plans developed in several European countries;

- calls on the European Commission to place greater emphasis on funding projects aimed at increasing food security at regional level to ensure the security of local communities, at least for the time needed for allied countries to organise aid.