المنتدى العالمي المعني بالأمن الغذائي والتغذية

I would like to say my compliments to the team that drew up the draft Scope for having included the legal question within the relevant aspects of the research. I believe it is important to establish a strong legal basis that guarantees rights for small producers to exercise agroecology. The policies and practices of good governance have to be guided on exigible rights. These rights must be biding not only for the States, but also for private actors. We cannot deny that the creation of a larger space for agroecology will be a process of 'struggle' for rights. The agroecology has to be an real alternative to agrobusiness. It will be necessary to improve traditional knowledge and develop new techniques. But these new techniques can definitely not separate the small producers from their means of susbsistence and production. A research to foster agroecology has to include an important legal question: the struggle for 'global social rights'. There is a need to discuss propper legal instruments specially to realize the right to adequate food, which is provided for in the art. 11 of the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.