Rights of peasants and others working in rural areas

INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS
1st session
15-19 July 2013

[Excerpt from the declaration]

Famine and malnutrition in the world are on the increase and we have known for several years that the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved by 2015. Worse still, 80% of the nearly one billion people suffering from hunger and malnutrition live in rural areas and are food producers, as the Advisory Committee’s study and FAO reports show.

Although the causes of this intolerable situation are well known, most governments and international institutions, particularly financial and commercial, continue to promote a development model that is destructive both environmentally and socially as well as economically.

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