A/69/275 cent. 9 Those statistics emphasize women’s key role in agriculture, not only in ensuring the well-being of individuals, families and rural communities, but also in relation to overall economic productivity and sustainable development. 31. Article 14 of the Convention on the All Forms of Elimination of Discrimination against Women should be used as a guiding tool by States. In the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012, it is noted that gender equality is at the core of all reform efforts. The Voluntary Tenure Guidelines also contain special provisions for improving gender equality in both formal and customary systems, for instance through amending discriminatory inheritance and property laws. The Special Rapporteur will review State policies with reference to the Guidelines, highlight ing examples of good practices that encourage access to land for women and other vulnerable groups. 32. Women in many parts of the world are confronted with other discriminatory policies and societal norms that prevent them from accessing their fundamenta l right to adequate food and nutrition. Limited access to education and adequate public health care, as well as early marriage and pregnancy, domestic violence and unequal employment opportunities impose restrictions on women’s mobility, decisionmaking power and control over the family income. 10 Migration as a result of natural disasters, climate change and conflict has also had a disproportionate effect on women, particularly those living in rural areas and among the urban poor. 33. There is also a need for the new global development goals to address structural transformation in relation to the existing global systems of power, decision -making and resource-sharing as a means of achieving women’s rights and gender equality in relation to food security. That includes enacting policies that recognize and redistribute the unequal and unfair burdens of women and girls in sustaining societal well-being and economies, which are intensified in times of economic and ecological crises. 11 34. The fact that women are also considered as the primary caregivers, in both rural and urban settings, adds an extra dimension to their responsibilities within the household. While rural women often shoulder the burden of a heavy workload in addition to their care duties, urban poor woman face different challenges relating to assuring adequate food and nutrition for their family. For a range of economic reasons, poor urban women are increasingly relying on less nutritious processed foods. The Special Rapporteur intends to work with r elevant stakeholders to address concerns related to the food issues facing different countries as a result of a dietary transition from traditional diets to processed foods high in fat and sugar, including the concerns addressed by her predecessor (see A/HRC/19/59). __________________ 9 10 11 10/18 Ibid., “FAO at work 2010-2011. Women — key to food security”, available from www.fao.org/docrep/014/am719e/am719e00.pdf. “What works for women: proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security”, joint NGO publication, 2012, available from http://www.care.org/ sites/default/files/documents/CC-2012-What_Works_for_Women.pdf. Women’s Major Group, “Gender equality, women’s rights and women’s priorities: recommendations for the proposed sustainable development goals and the post -2015 development agenda”, September 2013. 14-58889