A/HRC/43/44/Add.5 fragmented and complex food systems, the Special Rapporteur urges the Government and other stakeholders to prioritize the following issues: (a) Adopt a comprehensive framework law that has an interdisciplinary focus and human rights-based approach to food security and food sovereignty, and promote a sustainable agricultural system; (b) Move from a charity-based approach to the full implementation of the right to food to eliminate hunger and food insecurity. The State has a duty to protect, respect and fulfil the right to food, and this cannot be achieved by food charity organizations; (c) Adopt a national framework law for school feeding programmes that includes funding to combat disparities among municipalities and ensure that all students have access to school canteens; (d) Take necessary gender-sensitive legal and budgetary measures to ensure that women in the agricultural sector, including migrant workers, fully enjoy their human rights and have access to decent work standards; (e) Complement poverty statistics by specific food poverty statistics, which should be elaborated by the National Institute of Statistics and made available to the public; (f) Establish strong control mechanisms for Common Agricultural Policy subsidies to ensure that funds are provided to actual farmers; (g) Approve the law on double-race auctions, currently pending in Parliament; (h) Support the income of smallholders through the direct payment of the first pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy in order to reduce their production costs; (i) Approve the law on small-scale farming, currently pending in Parliament, to support smallholders; (j) Adopt measures to support migrant workers who face harsh living conditions and regularize their status in the country by, for example, providing work permits, re-establishing humanitarian protection and creating national mechanisms to provide them with access to basic services; (k) Revise Law 199/2016 on caporalati to include criminal and/or tort responsibility of third parties. Furthermore, consider revising the Criminal Code, which excludes the possibility of self-incrimination for those who denounce exploitation and exploiters in the agrifood chain. Consider also creating a national coordination to assess caporalati across the country; (l) Repeal the “Salvini decree”, which has de facto fostered a reality outside the law that has benefited criminal organizations, and address the correct treatment of migrants; (m) Further increase the monitoring of the use of banned pesticides and establish positive incentives and assistance for organic farming; (n) Promote local products and urban farmers’ markets to ensure that consumers can access better quality food. Continue to support organic agriculture and agroecology through financial mechanisms and training programmes; (o) Legislate a stronger law-and-order approach to environmental crimes; (p) Prioritize the use of a biological solution to address Xylella fastidiosa disease and make specific efforts to preserve and restore lost rural heritage, for both economic and environmental reasons, in the region of Apulia; (q) Provide a regulatory framework to control the private food sector in the food industry, especially producers of sugary drinks and foods that contain excessive amounts of fat, sugar and salt, and ban unhealthy food advertisements from the media and from school canteens; 19

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