A/HRC/7/5 page 27 (e) States should establish a five-year moratorium on all initiatives to develop biofuels that aim to convert food into fuel. States should ensure that biofuels are produced from non-food plants, agricultural wastes and crop residues, rather than food crops, in order to avert massive rises in prices of food, water and land and the diversion of these resources away from food production. This will require immediate massive investment in “second-generation” technologies for the production of biofuels; (f) States should strengthen international and national protection mechanisms for people forced to leave their homes and lands because of hunger or other severe violations of their right to food. They should elaborate a new international legal instrument that will provide protection for all people fleeing from hunger who are not currently protected under international human rights, humanitarian or refugee law. The Special Rapporteur suggests that the Human Rights Council mandate its new Advisory Committee to draw up a new norm of temporary non-refoulement of refugees from hunger. -----

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