A/HRC/43/44/Add.6 by abandoned farm houses, once belonging to small-holder farmers who failed unable to compete with the pressure imposed by industrial agriculture. 59. Defining fair agricultural prices greatly impacts farmers, who are otherwise unable to obtain fair prices for their work and are forced to move out of the agriculture and rural areas. More consistent and permanent measures should be put in place to protect small and medium size farmers from price fluctuation, as to ensure their survival in the changing agricultural and food production sectors. Comments: The stabilisation of income is one of the main CAP goals, with the re equilibrium of the farmers position in the supply chain. 65. Finally, women are also a significant share of the agricultural sector, but are often invisible because they are generally overlooked and, most importantly, not involved in the regional, national and local policies and programmes targeting small holder farmers and agricultural workers. Many policies and plans are still lacking a gender-based approach. Their economic and social rights are also compromised by the disproportionate load of unpaid, unrecognized care, and domestic work that they perform at home. Comments: This statement should be proved with specific examples. E. Workers in the food system Comments: It is recommended to better specify which universe the data used is referred to, distinguishing the specific reference to migrants in agriculture from that relating to migrants in general, in order to avoid to report general problems relative to the conditions of migrants to the mere world of agriculture. The way the paragraph is set out suggests that the phenomenon of migrants affects the entire Italian agricultural sector, in all territorial realities and with the same intensity. 66. The agricultural system, although now partly mechanized, still strongly relies on agricultural workers, particularly during harvest season. In the South, farmers still employ seasonal workers from Eastern Europe, Africa and Italy, sometimes under illegal conditions. Numerous reports indicate that migrant workers endure slavery-like conditions in the olive oil, tomato and grapes industries among others.18 67. According to the National Institute for Social Protection, migrant workers amount to 35% of the overall workforce of about a million workers. This figure does not include the thousands of migrant workers irregularly employed in the fields and in the greenhouses. The incidence of migrant workers in the agricultural sector has tripled over the last ten years, passing from 5.3% in 2007 to 16.6% in 2017 of the total employment in agriculture. 68. Regardless of sex, age and nationality status, agricultural workers are exploited and underpaid. This is particularly severe for migrant workers, during harvest season, and even more if they are undocumented. The migrant workforce is concentrated in specific sectors, particularly those in which labour law enforcement is difficult to implement and training sessions are not especially needed. 69. According to different sources, the adoption of the 2018 Decree on security and immigration, known as “Salvini Decree”, has led to an increase of the number of undocumented migrant workers, due to the elimination of humanitarian protection and exclusion to asylum seekers from the reception system, accelerating the illegalization of asylum seekers. There are now an estimated 680,000 undocumented migrants, twice as many 18 NYT, Migrant crisis: Mafia exploits cheap labour in farm ghettos, 25 August 2017. 11