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ensure that Government policies are sufficiently well formulated in order to address
the needs of the most vulnerable people living in both rural and urban areas. These
policies and reforms should be designed, implemented and monitored with the
participation of all stakeholders, including the most vulnerable people and civil society
organizations. Concrete strategies to eliminate discrimination against women require
not only changes in institutions and laws, but more importantly in cultural practices
that create and perpetuate such discrimination. School meals programmes and
combating child labour should be essential components of strategies to eliminate
chronic malnutrition among children.
77.
To improve the realization of the right to food and combat discrimination,
more attention needs to be paid to agrarian reform that benefits small-scale land
holders and promotes security of tenure and access to land, particularly for women.
The concept of food sovereignty offers an important new form of cooperation and
association between producers and consumers.
78.
One of the most important new developments in the protection against
discrimination in the context of the right to food was the adoption of the Declaration
on the Rights of Peasants – Women and Men by La Via Campesina, in June 2008. The
analysis made by the authors of the declaration has gained pertinence since the world
food crisis. The Advisory Committee believes that it is time to undertake a
preliminary study on the significance and importance of a possible new instrument on
the rights of peasants and other people living in rural areas, including from
traditional fishing, hunting and herding activities.
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