A/HRC/10/65 page 15 climate change include the water sector, agriculture and natural resources, biodiversity, health (vector and epidemic diseases), the industrial economy, and political geography leading to conflict over natural resources. Mr. Elgizouli pointed out that the combination of decades of drought, desertification and overpopulation was among the causes of the conflict in Darfur, because the nomads searching for water had to take their livestock further south to land mainly occupied by farming communities. 66. The Chairperson-Rapporteur then opened the floor to participants. A representative from the Sudan made a statement, as did representatives from the Commission for Legal Aid to Andean and Amazonian People for Development, the International Council on Human Rights Policy and the International Organization for Migration. 67. Reference was made to Council resolution 7/23 on the link between climate change and human rights. There was a suggestion that an international monitoring system for water resources be established. Speakers pointed out the need for continued open debate on human rights and climate change at all relevant forums, including the future sessions of the Social Forum. 68. With regard to migration, it was stated that migration in relation to climate change is not only a failure to adapt, but an adaptation in itself. Migration is motivated for different reasons, one being climate change. Migrants should be regarded as agents of change, not just victims. There is a need to develop a legal framework and apply a rights-based approach to migration to improve the situation of migrants. It was emphasized that, despite the fact that migration transcends borders, responses to deal with migration are regulated by borders; increased cooperation between States is therefore essential. Food security, the food crisis and the right to food 69. Manzoor Ahmad, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Liaison Office in Geneva focused his presentation on the food crisis, with particular emphasis on its relationships to poverty and globalization. He noted that, while globalization seems to have reduced overall poverty levels, it has not reduced extreme poverty, and has not helped the fight against hunger, because globalization has acted perversely in agriculture. Huge subsidies in developed countries that provide them with an unfair advantage, a decrease in aid for agriculture and the non-existence of adjustment policies for farmers suffering the adverse effects of globalization are but some of the reasons for the increase in hunger globally. 70. Mr. Ahmad emphasized the need for short- and long-term policies to tackle the food crisis. Urgent action is required to meet the immediate needs, for example, by improving access of the vulnerable to emergency food assistance, nutrition interventions and other social safety nets, boosting smallholder farmer food production and adjusting trade and taxation policies to support immediate food availability. For long-term policies, Mr. Ahmad suggested sustaining growth in food availability through smallholder-led production, increasing coverage and efficiency of social protection systems, and strengthening food security risk management. 71. The Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier de Schutter, referred to the current food crisis and highlighted the benefits of incorporating a human rights-based approach to the efforts to address the crisis. He identified some of the causes of the current food crisis and two