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production methods. More importantly, the reform should ensure that the right
to adequate food of people is protected through appropriate levels of
production as well as equitable access and just distribution.
86. It is therefore necessary to recognize the existence of inadequate
mitigation and adaptation policies within the climate change regime and to
ensure that the right policies are promoted through technical and legal
solutions. Food security and adaptation to climate change are mutually
supportive; in many situations, strategies to reduce vulnerability to climate
change will also increase food security.
87. As outlined in the present report, there is a need to encourage a major
shift from current industrial agriculture to transformative activities such as
conservation agriculture (agroecology) that support the local food movement,
protect smallholder farmers, empower women, respect food democracy,
maintain environmental sustainability and facilitate a healthy diet.
88. Finally, because the harm caused by climate change is felt predominantly
by people and regions that are minimally responsible in the first place, climate
change policies should be designed to minimize, if not overcome, these
fundamental injustices. Some of the climate change policies described in the
report, justified on the grounds that they help to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, undermine human rights. Unequal capabilities and exposure to the
dangers make climate change the biggest human rights and justice problem of
our time; solving it should be obligatory, not voluntary and aspirational.
Whether there will be sufficient political will to implement the recommended
shift in agricultural policy is the haunting uncertainty that casts a long shadow
over the future of food security and the realization of the right to food. There
are two dominant conclusions in the present report, the necessity of
encouraging agroecological approaches to food security and the need to
integrate the commitment to climate justice and human rights in the climate
change regime, which cannot be realized without the support of civil society.
Recommendations:
89.
In this context, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:
(a) Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change respect, protect, promote and fulfil human rights in all climate change related actions and ensure that human rights language is included in the
climate agreement to be reached in Paris;
(b) Policy coherence at the international level be ensured by fostering
cooperation between the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change and other international treaties relevant to climate change
and food security, while providing a human rights approach in the entire
agenda to promote climate justice and the right to food;
(c) Public policies that promote subsidies and production targets
resulting in artificial increases in the demand for biofuel production be
reviewed in light of their negative impact on the right to food and questionable
impact on emission reduction;
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