A/HRC/33/59 4. States should take measures to respect, protect and promote traditional knowledge, innovations and practicesb relevant to plant genetic resources. 8. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to equitably participate in sharing benefits arising from the utilization of plant genetic resources.c 9. States should take measures supporting the wider use of diversity of varieties and species in on-farm management, conservation and sustainable use of crops, and create strong links to participatory plant breeding to reduce the erosion of plant genetic resources and promote increased food production compatible with sustainable development.d 10. States should adopt measures expanding the use of local and locally adapted crops, varieties and underutilized species, with the participation of peasants and other people working in rural areas. Centre Europe-tiers monde Article 19 Suggested addition of new paragraph 6: Peasants have the right to benefit from land reform and use unused land on which they depend for their livelihood. Latifundia must be forbidden. Land has to fulfill its social function. Land ceilings to landownership should be introduced whenever necessary in order to ensure equitable access to land. Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, South Asian Feminist Alliance for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Community Self-Reliance Centre Article 19 • States should undertake equitable distribution of land and water use to support livelihoods of women peasants and prevent dispossession of resources from peasants to corporations. • Land and property should be either in the woman’s name or under joint ownership. Single women including widows should have individual land ownership. • States should develop gender sensitive land tenure context mapping at all levels. • Women‘s group at community level should be provided with collective rights for previously unused or fallow lands. • States should ensure equal and engaged participation of women in all decision making processes around issues connected to resources including land. Sates should remove barriers to ensure women’s participation in all aspects of local governance and decision making. b c d 38 Article 9.2a of the International Treaty on Pant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; and Article 8j and 10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Article 9.2b of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; and Article 5.2 of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Article 6.f of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.