A/HRC/12/31* page 25 (c) To encourage the international community to accelerate work on reaching international consensus on agrofuels that includes environmental standards and incorporates requirements of human rights instruments, paying attention in particular to the specific needs of smallholders. 48. With regard to social protection, the Special Rapporteur calls on the Council: (a) To encourage States to guarantee the right to social security to all, without discrimination, through the establishment of standing social protection schemes, and to ensure that, when targeted schemes are adopted, they are based on criteria that are fair, effective and transparent; (b) To encourage the international community to put in place a global reinsurance mechanism, creating an incentive for countries to set up robust social protection programmes for the benefit of their populations. 49. With regard to volatility on international markets, the Special Rapporteur encourages the international community to better manage the risks associated with international trade and to ensure least-developed and net food-importing developing countries better protection from the volatility of international market prices, and to combat volatility on international markets more effectively by: (a) (b) levels; The full implementation of the Marrakesh Decision within WTO; Encouraging the establishment of food reserves at the local, national or regional (c) Improving the management of grain stocks at the global level, including improved information about and coordination of global grain stocks to limit the attractiveness of speculation; (d) Establishing an emergency reserve that allows WFP to meet humanitarian needs at pre-crisis prices; (e) Examining further the proposals for a minimum physical grain reserve to stabilize markets, and for other means to combat speculation on the futures markets of agricultural commodities by commodity index funds. 50. With regard to the strengthening of global governance, the Special Rapporteur calls on the Council to encourage States to transform the Committee on World Food Security into a forum in which Governments, international agencies and civil society organizations can discuss issues that call for more cooperation between States, adopt guidelines revised at regular intervals and improve accountability by monitoring achievement of time-bound targets set by States and international agencies for the implementation of those guidelines. -----

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