A/HRC/26/48 Annex II List of speakers in the panel discussions Panel discussion I. The importance of peasants, including their positive contribution to food security, the fight against climate change and the conservation of biodiversity • Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Wageningen University (video presentation) • Marcel Mazoyer, AgroParisTech • José Esquinas, Córdoba University and former staff member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations • Eva Torremocha, Soberanía Alimentaria, Biodiversidad y Culturas • Devinder Sharma, Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security Lalji Desai, of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Nomadic Pastoralists, was unable to attend. Panel discussion II. The situation of human rights in rural areas, in particular in terms of discrimination, poverty and hunger • Jean Ziegler, former Special Rapporteur on the right to food and former member of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee • Miloon Kothari, Housing and Land Rights Network and former Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context • Genevieve Savigny, Confédération paysanne and European Coordination of La Via Campesina • Claire Ameyó Quenum, African Network on the Right to Food • Maria Silva Emanuelli, Habitat International Coalition, Latin America Office • Sandra Ratjen, International Commission of Jurists Panel discussion III. The need for a United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas • Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food (video presentation) • Christophe Golay, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights • Henry Saragih, La Via Campesina • Michael Windfuhr, German Institute for Human Rights (video presentation) • Marc Edelman, City University of New York • Margaret Nakato, World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers 15