All actors must ensure transparency and democratic oversight
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- Governments in Southern countries must
review participation in public-private investment programmes
such as the G8’s New Alliance and decline or withdraw
from projects that fail to promote the right to food and the legitimate tenure rights of
women and communities, or prioritise business interests over vulnerable people.
- Northern governments, donor agencies, International Financial Institutions and
the private sector must refrain from pressuring Southern governments to
provide such incentives to land-based investments
, whether as part of explicit loan conditions, investment conditions or technical
advice. - All support by donors and International
Financial Institutions for public and private
sector investment must be transparent and demonstrate that land rights of women
and communities are not negatively affected.
- Private corporations must publicly commit to zero tolerance for land grabs
, including by declining incentives that fuel them.
2. Foster
investment in women and small holder food producers, and ensure
their participation
in the planning and decision-making process of land-based
policies, programmes and projects: - Governments in the global South and North
must
commit to and increase public investment
in serving the needs of women and smallholder food producers, including
climate resilient sustainable agriculture, fair value chains and sustainable and democratic
food systems.
- Southern governments must ensure the participation of women and communities
in designing, adopting and enforcing agricultural and investment policies that
promote the right to food and climate resilient sustainable agriculture.
- Northern governments must shift the focus of the New Alliance
and similar public-private partnership programmes away from
encouraging large corporations’ investment that leads to land grabs and toward promoting
smallholder food producers’ own investment in line with the Voluntary Guidelines
on the Responsible Governance of Tenure Tenure Guidelines.
- Donor agencies and International Financial Institutions must prioritise the needs and
participation of women and communities in the
planning and decision-making process of all projects involving land use
or land transactions. - Private corporations must invest responsibly
by respecting the rights including land rights of women and communities, ensuring that
investments beneit smallholders and enhance food security, in particular by investing directly
in supporting smallholder producers, climate resilient production and fair value chains.
3. All actors must stop their participation in or support to any large-scale land deals that risk
violating the principles of the Tirana Declaration
until satisfactory implementation of laws and policies derived from the Tenure
Guidelines and the African Union’s Land Policy Initiative principles
protecting land rights of communities and women.