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Recommendations N°5. The right to food and sustainable development

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The environmental legal experts global meeting:

Conscious of the necessity to link the achievement of the right to food to a fair access to natural resources, in particular for the most vulnerable populations;

Conscious of the necessity to ensure legal safety of the rights to land, water, forest, fisheries; Conscious of the threat to food safety and to the vital right to food of indigenous people and local communities, due on the one hand to irrational exploitation of natural resources; and on the other hand to unfair access to these resources;

Considering that the survival of humanity will be done through the achievement of the right to sufficient and adequate food, and through sustainable agriculture and integrated management of all the natural resources;

Considering the European Parliament Resolution of 29 September 2011 calling for an effective achievement of the right to food;

Recommends:

1. Regarding the conceptual basis:

  1. That by referring to the concept of agroecology, agriculture development and right to food should be linked so that food systems ensure food availability for all and that the supply satisfies the global needs;

  2. To make sure that agriculture development contributes to the increase of small-scale farmers, thus reducing hunger as well as poverty;

  3. That the concern for equity be associated with a requirement of sustainability, by ensuring that agriculture maintains its capacity to the needs of the present and future generations provided that agriculture biodiversity is safeguarded, that water and soil quality is preserved, and that desertification and drought, climate change and natural disasters are combated against.

2. Regarding the legal framework:

  1. To constitutionally recognize the right to adequate food to every human being so that he/she can access sound and nutritious food in sufficient quantity to fully enjoy his/her physical and mental capacities;

  2. To adopt a legal system- which may be in the form of a framework law- specifically focusing on the right to food that...

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