Human rights criteria for making contract farming and other business models inclusive of small-scale farmers 2011, para. 47
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Governments should support the organization of farmers into cooperatives and other types of producers' organizations that can improve farmers' bargaining position and help them to move up the value chain into the produce packaging, processing and marketing operations and help them to acquire inputs and sell their produce under better circumstances. This condition is necessary to ensure fairness in the negotiations between investors and farmers' organizations. Governments could also provide legal advice to farmers or their organizations to enhance their negotiating position and to ensure that any contract they choose to enter into is economically sustainable for them.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Food & Nutrition
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2011
Paragraph type
Conclusion / Recommendation
Reference
SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/262, para. 47.