The purpose of this booklet is to create broader awareness, promote deeper understanding and enhance capacities (through training) of rural people's movements on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).

As popular education context-based toolkit, this booklet can empower peasants to improve their livelihoods in rural areas. The booklet can serve as a foundational tool to ensure that the UNDROP will be respected, implemented and promoted at all levels, from local to international, from community customs to policymaking mechanisms.

The Basic Booklet and the forthcoming four Thematic Booklets focus on specific articles adopted in UNDROP and how affected people (working-class people, rights holders, peasants, and people living or working in rural areas) can apply it in legal and advocacy spaces. All peasants must understand their rights for the effective implementation of UNDROP. The publication of the series of booklets is part of a crucial popular education campaign of La Via Campesina.