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Right to land in Food Sovereignty of UNDROP

Definition of peasants and other people working in rural areas:

Article 1

For the purposes of the present Declaration, a peasant is any person who engages or who seeks to engage, alone, or in association with others or as a community, in small-scale agricultural production for subsistence and/or for the market, and who relies significantly, though not necessarily exclusively, on family or household labour and other non-monetized ways of organizing labour, and who has a special dependency on and attachment to the land.

The present Declaration applies to any person engaged in artisanal or small-scale agriculture, crop planting, livestock raising, pastoralism, fishing, forestry, hunting or gathering, and handicrafts related to agriculture or a related occupation in a rural area. It also applies to dependent family members of peasants.

The present Declaration also applies to indigenous peoples and local communities working on the land, transhumant, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities, and the landless engaged in the abovementioned activities.

The present Declaration further applies to hired workers, including all migrant workers regardless of their migration status, and seasonal workers, on plantations, agricultural farms, forests and farms in aquaculture and in agro-industrial enterprises.

Five (5) components

Right to land in food sovereignty

(right to decent income is in page 10 to 12)

Component
Component 1 This key component aim for recognition of peasants and other people working in rural areas as fundamental part of right to land in food sovereignty. Criminalisation, marginalisation, oppression are contravening this recognition. Right to land defines right to life.	Article 7 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the rightvto recognition everywhere as persons before the law. Article 9 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to form and join organizations, trade unions, cooperatives or any other organization or association of their own choosing for the protection of their interests, and to bargain collectively. Such organizations shall be independent and voluntary in character, and remain free from all interference, coercion or repression. Article 17 1. ….the right to land, individually and/or collectively, in accordance with article 28 of the presentDeclaration, including the right to have access to, sustainably use and manage land and the water bodies, coastal seas, fisheries, pastures and forests therein, to achieve an adequate standard of living, to have a place to live in security, peace and dignity and to develop their cultures. Relation with Natural resource, means of production, biodiversity, environment
Component 2 This key component aim for participation of peasants and other people working in rural areas in matter regarding their life, and in matter of public goods.	Article 10 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to active and free participation, directly and/or through their representative organizations, in the preparation and implementation of policies, programmes and projects that may affect their lives, land and livelihoods. Article 16 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families and to facilitated access to the means of production necessary to achieve them, including production tools, technical assistance, credit, insurance and other financial services. They also have the right to engage freely, individually and/or collectively, in association with others or as a community, in traditional ways of farming, fishing, livestock rearing and forestry and to develop community-based commercialization systems.
Component 3 This key component is the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas to feed community, to feed their nation, and to feed the world. Right to Land is fundamental for peasants and other rural communities in dedicating their role	Article 17 3. States shall take appropriate measures to provide legal recognition for land tenure rights, including customary land tenure rights not currently protected by law, recognizing the existence of different models and systems. States shall protect legitimate tenure and ensure that peasants and other people working in rural areas are not arbitrarily or unlawfully evicted and that their rights are not otherwise extinguished or infringed. States shall recognize and protect the natural commons and their related systems of collective use and management. 2. States shall take appropriate measures to remove and prohibit all forms of discrimination relating to the right to land, including those resulting from change of marital status, lack of legal capacity or lack of access to economic resources. In relation to Article 15 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to adequate food and the fundamental right to be free from hunger. This includes the right to produce food and the right to adequate nutrition, which guarantee the possibility of enjoying the highest degree of physical, emotional and intellectual development. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to determine their own food and agriculture systems, recognized by many States and regions as the right to food sovereignty. This includes the right to participate in decision-making processes on food and agriculture policy and the right to healthy and adequate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods that respect their cultures.
Component 4 This key component is on “commons” and communities. Peasants and other people working in rural areas lives and works in their ecosystem sustainably and contributing to the protection of biodiversity.	Article 17 Peasants and other people living in rural areas have the right to land, individually and/or collectively, in accordance with article 28 of the present Declaration, including the right to have access to, sustainably use and manage land and the water bodies, coastal seas, fisheries, pastures and forests therein, to achieve an adequate standard of living, to have a place to live in security, peace and dignity and to develop their cultures. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to be protected against arbitrary and unlawful displacement from their land or place of habitual residence, or from other natural resources used in their activities and necessary for the enjoyment of adequate living conditions. States shall incorporate protections against displacement into domestic legislation that are consistent with international human rights and humanitarian law. States shall prohibit arbitrary and unlawful forced eviction, the destruction of agricultural areas and the confiscation or expropriation of land and other natural resources, including as a punitive measure or as a means or method of war. Article 18 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands, and of the resources that they use and manage. Article 20 States shall take appropriate measures, in accordance with their relevant international obligations, to prevent the depletion and ensure the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in order to promote and protect the full enjoyment of the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. Article 21 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the human rights to safe and clean drinking water and to sanitation, which are essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights and human dignity. These rights include water supply systems and sanitation facilities that are of good quality, affordable and physically accessible, and non-discriminatory and acceptable in cultural and gender terms. Article 25 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to adequate training suited to the specific agroecological, sociocultural and economic environments in which they find themselves. Issues covered by training programmes should include, but not be limited to, improving productivity, marketing and the ability to cope with pests, pathogens, system shocks, the effects of chemicals, climate change and weather-related events. Article 26 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to enjoy their own culture and to pursue freely their cultural development, without interference or any form of discrimination. They also have the right to maintain, express, control, protect and develop their traditional and local knowledge, such as ways of life, methods of production or technology, or customs and tradition. No one may invoke cultural rights to infringe upon the human rights guaranteed by international law or to limit their scope.
Component 5 This key component on traditional seed system and practice coming from community and/or family farming contributing to the sustainable life.	Article 19 Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to seeds, in accordance with article 28 of the present Declaration, including:The right to the protection of traditional knowledge relevant to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture;The right to equitably participate in sharing the benefits arising from the utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture;The right to participate in the making of decisions on matters relating to the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture;The right to save, use, exchange and sell their farm-saved seed or propagating material. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their own seeds and traditional knowledge

3. monitoring process

Activities:

Discussion
Meeting
Visit
Compilation of cases
Compilation of statistics

Component	Guiding questions	Area of monitoring
Component 1 This key component aim for recognition of peasants and other people working in rural areas as fundamental part of food sovereignty. Criminalisation, marginalisation, oppression are contravening this recognition.	How far communities, groups, organisations can develop their livelihood in decent ways, and recognised by wider society and their government as key contributor to food sovereignty?	Tangible: What tangible/physical situation (or a case?) Process: Activities and sense of ownership
Component 2 This key component aim for participation of peasants and other people working in rural areas in matter regarding their life, and in matter of public goods.	Food, agriculture, livelihood are crucial for a nation. How much communities, groups, organisations participate and contribute to decision making and the delivery of public program of food, agriculture, and livelihood	Tangible: What tangible/physical situation (or a case?) Process: Activities and sense of ownership
Component 3 This key component is the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas to feed community, to feed their nation, and to feed the world. Means of production: Article 16 1. …the right to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families and to facilitated access to the means of production necessary to achieve them, including production tools, technical assistance, credit, insurance and other financial services. They also have the right to engage freely, individually and/or collectively, in association with others or as a community, in traditional ways of farming, fishing, livestock rearing and forestry and to develop community-based commercialization systems.	How communities, groups, and organisations develop their role in food system or food cyle.	Tangible: What tangible/physical situation (or a case?) Process: Activities and sense of ownership
Component 4 This key component is on “commons”, communities, collective exercise of rights. Peasants and other people working in rural areas lives and works in their ecosystem sustainably and contributing to the protection of biodiversity. Means of production: Article 16 5. States shall take appropriate measures to strengthen the resilience of peasants and other people working in rural areas against natural disasters and other severe disruptions, such as market failures.	How communities lives in their ecosystem? How their manage the biodiversity for them, and for wider society? How communities develop their decent standard of living	Tangible: What tangible/physical situation (or a case?) Process: Activities and sense of ownership
Component 5 This key component on traditional means of production and livelihood (system and practice) coming from community and/or family farming contributing to the sustainable life. “UN DECADE OF FAMILY FARMING” Means of production Article 16 3. States shall take appropriate measures to strengthen and support local, national and regional markets in ways that facilitate and ensure that peasants and other people working in rural areas have full and equitable access and participation in these markets to sell their products at prices that allow them and their families to attain an adequate standard of living. 2. States shall take appropriate measures to favour the access of peasants and other people working in rural areas to the means of transportation and the processing, drying and storage facilities necessary for selling their products on local, national and regional markets at prices that guarantee them a decent income and livelihood 6. States shall take appropriate measures to ensure fair wages and equal remuneration for work of equal value, without distinction of any kind. 4. States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that their rural development, agricultural, environmental, trade and investment policies and programmes contribute effectively to protecting and strengthening local livelihood options and to the transition to sustainable modes of agricultural production. States shall stimulate sustainable production, including agroecological and organic production, whenever possible, and facilitate direct farmer-to-consumer sales.	What kind of traditional system is developed by (your) communities, groups, and organisations? How it contribute to preservation of important seed, biodiversity, agriworld (e.g. because of status, of contribution to health, or others)? How they develop traditional knowledge from that process?	Tangible: What tangible/physical situation (or a case?) Process: Activities and sense of ownership

4. agenda development

Right to lan in food sovereignty + means of production

Activities:

Discussion
Meeting
Development of participation in public policy
Best practices and extrapolation to other group, to public, to wider world

Component	Agenda development
Component 1 This key component aim for recognition of peasants and other people working in rural areas as fundamental part of food sovereignty. Criminalisation, marginalisation, oppression are contravening this recognition.	Communities best practices: Cultural approach in communication and in engagement with others Traditional knowledge as contribution to wider society Participation in public decision making
Component 2 This key component aim for participation of peasants and other people working in rural areas in matter regarding their life, and in matter of public goods.	Communities best practices: Develop into study session Exchange visit Joint research or writing Participation in public decision making
Component 3 This key component is the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas to feed community, to feed their nation, and to feed the world.	Communities best practices: Develop into study session Exchange visit Joint research or writing Participation in public decision making
Component 4 This key component is on “commons”. Peasants and other people working in rural areas lives and works in their ecosystem sustainably and contributing to the protection of biodiversity.	Communities best practices: Develop into study session Exchange visit Joint research or writing Participation in public decision making Development of “list of commons” as national and world’s heritage
Component 5 This key component is on traditional means of production and livelihood (including traditional seed system and practice) coming and from community and/or family farming contributing to the sustainable life.	Communities best practices: Develop into study session Exchange visit Joint research or writing Participation in public decision making Development of “tradisional seed system” as national and world’s heritage