A/HRC/43/44/Add.2 spiralling crisis before it morphs into full-blown social unrest. Early warning mechanisms aimed at monitoring the entire set of economic and social rights should be put in place to prevent more suffering. 122. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government of Zimbabwe: (a) Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; (b) Ratify all International Labour Organization conventions relevant to workers in the agricultural and food production sectors, including plantation workers, and ensure their effective implementation; (c) Honour its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by taking immediate action to implement principles that protect the livelihood of rural women and eliminate their vulnerability, and support women farmers with incentives, access to credit and other productive sources; (d) Implement the various voluntary guidelines of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to revise the national agricultural and food policies such as the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security and the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems; (e) Establish security of land tenure to prevent forced evictions of farmers; (f) Create policies that support urban and peri-urban agriculture; (g) Ensure the proper functioning of the Human Rights Commission in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), and allocate budgetary and human resources for the effective implementation of all human-rights policies, including the right to food; (h) Enact binding legislation introducing due diligence mechanisms to allow affected individuals and communities to hold accountable the private sector, including all supply chain enterprises that profit from the human rights abuses; (i) Enact legislation to limit the excessive and dangerous use of toxic agrochemicals, providing for appropriate sanctions for those who break the law and adequate compensation for persons affected, together with implementation monitoring systems; (j) Improve the human rights protection for informal agricultural workers, especially women and girls, peasants, certain minorities suffering discrimination, those living in remote areas, and migrant workers without citizenship rights; (k) Support small-scale farmers and producers, particularly women and young people, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, and pastoralists, by ensuring fair access to land and other productive resources and by continuing the Presidential Agricultural Input Support Scheme; (l) Revise and restructure the Targeted Command Agriculture programme to include an effective monitoring system to avoid unnecessary burdens on the budget; (m) Continue targeted food subsidies in times of emergency to lower food prices for vulnerable groups, and subsidize more diverse and nutritious foods, in order to address hunger and malnutrition throughout the country; (n) Continue to cooperate with international humanitarian agencies and donor countries to provide an equitable and transparent distribution of food and humanitarian assistance; 19

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