A/HRC/13/32 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. 22

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