The Voluntary Guidelines on the Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests are complete | Land Portal

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CSO Press release

(Rome, 13/03/2012) Last Friday, 9th of March in the evening, the Committee on Word Food Security(CFS) completed the intergovernmental negotiations of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on theTenure of Land Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security. With thesuccessful completion of these negotiations after a participatory process lasting nearly 3years, the CFS has shown clearly that it has the capacity to bring a wide variety of socialactors to the debate and to seek solutions to one of the most difficult and delicate issues weface today, that of access to natural resources for food production/provision. More than 45 persons representing 20 civil society organizations attended the final round of negotiations.

The Guidelines contain valuable points that will provide backing to organizations in their longstruggle to ensure the care and use of Resources and Natural Goods in order to producemore nourishing food, so helping to eliminate hunger from the world by addressing its rootcauses.Ensuring access to land, fisheries and forests is absolutely vital, not just to enable small foodproducers to nourish the world. Access to natural resources is a question of dignity and amatter of life and death for millions of peasant communities, pastoralists, indigenousPeoples and fisher folk. In many parts of the world, land-grabbing causes great suffering bydisplacing people and communities and destroying and confiscating their lands, furtherincreasing the incidence of violent conflicts.

Just in the last few months, while this document was being negotiated, leaders of socialmovements in different parts of the world have been persecuted or assassinated for theirstruggle. In Latin America, we wish to remember Jerónimo R. Tugri y Mauricio Méndez dePanamá, Bernardo Méndez Vásquez de México, Christian Ferreyra de Argentina, and thepeasants who were assassinated in the land conflicts of the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras.

We also want to show our solidarity with Herman Kumara, leader of the World Forum ofFisher Peoples, who has been threatened with death and forced to leave his country, SriLanka.In spite of the massive and systematic violations of human rights, violations that take manyforms in rural regions of the world, governments remain reluctant to re-affirm thecommitments they have already made to different international Human Rights instrumentsrelating to natural resources. This means we must all redouble our efforts. We deeply regretthe fact that over the course of these negotiations, governments maintained their positionthat large investments in industrial agriculture are essential for development.

We call once more on the whole international community, the states and governments ofthe world, to finally commit themselves to establishing a new era in history, based on foodsovereignty. These Guidelines, when understood as rights to land, fisheries and forests, areanother tool in the ongoing struggle to eradicate hunger from the world

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CSO media contact: Sofía Monsalve Suárez, monsalve [at]fian.org , phone +4962216530051

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