A/HRC/25/57 Annex [English only] Overview of key recommendations The following provides a summary of key recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur in past thematic reports, from 2008 to 2013, to the Human Rights Council (at its 9th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 19th, and 22nd sessions) and the General Assembly (at its 63rd to 68th sessions). A. 1. Ensuring access to resources Access to land In a context in which commercial pressures on land are increasing, it is crucial that States strengthen the protection of land users (A/65/281) and implement the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources. In particular, States should: (a) Ensure security of tenure, by adopting anti-eviction laws and improving the regulatory framework concerning expropriation; (b) Conduct decentralized mapping of various users’ land rights and strengthen customary systems of tenure; (c) Adopt tenancy laws to protect tenants from eviction and from excessive levels of rent; (d) Respect the rights of special groups, such as indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, herders and pastoralists, for whom the protection of commons is vital; (e) Prioritize development models that do not lead to evictions, disruptive shifts in land rights and increased land concentration, and ensure that all land investment projects are consistent with relevant obligations under international human rights law (A/HRC/13/33/Add.2); (f) Refrain from criminalizing the non-violent occupation of land by movements of landless people; (g) Implement redistributive land reform where a high degree of land ownership concentration is combined with a significant level of rural poverty attributable to landlessness or to the cultivation of excessively small plots of land by smallholders, and supporting beneficiaries of land redistribution to ensure that they can make a productive use of their land; and (h) Regulate land markets to prevent the impacts of speculation on land concentration and distress sales by indebted farmers. 2. Seeds Guaranteeing food security in the future requires that we support crop genetic diversity, including agrobiodiversity (A/64/170). This is particularly important for small-scale farmers in developing countries, who still overwhelmingly rely on seeds which they save from their own crops and which they donate, exchange or sell. In order to ensure that the 21