A/HRC/7/5 page 11 on the right to food (A/62/439/Add.2, resolution XVII),13 in which the World Bank and IMF are asked to avoid actions that could have a negative impact upon the realization of the right to food. 25. The Special Rapporteur believes that his two missions to Niger showed clearly how the market-based paradigm of development, largely imposed by IMF and the World Bank, has been harmful to food security for the most vulnerable.14 Cost-recovery policies in health centres, for instance, mean that many poor children are not being treated for malnutrition. The privatization of government support services, including the logistics and food distribution system (OPVN) and the National Veterinary Office, has exacerbated food insecurity amongst small-scale farmers and pastoralists. Niger possesses wealth in the form of 20 million head of cattle, sheep and camels, which are historically prized and exported widely. The animals constitute essential revenue for millions of nomads and peasants. But the privatization of the national veterinary office led to disaster: many pastoralists can no longer afford the prices of vaccinations, medicines and vitamins charged by commercial traders. 26. The schizophrenia of the United Nations system is also particularly evident in relation to land issues.15 Despite the importance placed on agrarian reform models that promote transformative and redistributive reform by the international community, contradictions persist. In the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and World Food Summit Plan of Action,16 land reform constituted a key part of stated commitments. In the Conference Declaration of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development organized by FAO and the Government of Brazil and held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 7 to 10 March 2006,17 95 States recognized that one important way to ensure the fulfilment of the right to food was to establish appropriate land reform to secure access to land for marginalized and vulnerable groups, and to adopt adequate legal frameworks and policies to promote traditional and family agriculture. At the same time, agencies such as the World Bank are promoting new models of agrarian reform which emphasize the market and are compatible with the Washington Consensus, a paradigm which is “inherently opposed to policy interventions aimed at achieving social equity”.18 27. The World Bank’s “market-assisted” or “negotiated” models of land reform seek to overcome elite resistance to land reform by offering credit to landless or land-poor farmers to 13 At the time of writing, the resolution had only just been adopted by the General Assembly and not yet numbered. 14 See A/60/350, E/CN.4/2002/58/Add.1. 15 See A/57/356. 16 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit, 13-17 November 1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix. 17 18 See FAO document (C/2006/REP), Appendix G. FAO, Contemporary Thinking on Land Reforms, 1998, http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/ FAOINFO/ SUSTDEV/LTdirect/LTan0037.htm.FAO.