A/HRC/19/75 Article 8 Freedom to determine price and market for agricultural production 1. Peasants have the right to prioritize their agricultural production for their families’ needs. They have the right to store their production to ensure the satisfaction of their basic needs and those of their families. 2. Peasants have the right to sell their products on traditional local markets. 3. Peasants have the right to determine the price, individually or collectively. 4. Peasants have the right to get fair price for their production. 5. Peasants have the right to get a fair payment for their work, to fulfil their basic needs and those of their families. 6. Peasants have the right to a fair and impartial system of evaluation of the quality of their product, nationally and internationally. 7. Peasants have the right to develop community-based commercialization systems in order to guarantee food sovereignty. Article 9 Right to the protection of agriculture values 1. Peasants have the right to the recognition and protection of their culture and local agriculture values. 2. Peasants have the right to develop and preserve local knowledge in agriculture. 3. Peasants have the right to reject interventions that can destroy local agricultural values. 4. Peasants have the right to be express their spirituality, individually and collectively. Article 10 Right to biological diversity 1. Peasants have the right to protect, preserve and develop biological diversity, individually and collectively. 2. Peasants have the right to reject patents threatening biological diversity, including on plants, food and medicine. 3. Peasants have the right to reject intellectual property rights on goods, services, resources and knowledge that are owned, maintained, discovered, developed or produced by the local peasant communities. 4. Peasants have the right to reject certification mechanisms established by transnational corporations. Local guarantee schemes run by peasants’ organizations with government support should be promoted and protected. 26