Statement 10 Years of the Tenure Guideline: We belong to the Land
10 Years of the Tenure Guidelines: States Must Address Rising Inequalities and Enact Agrarian Reform to Realize the Right to Land
IPC International Statement, May 26, 2022
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines), we, organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, urban communities and civil society, underline the critical importance of land, fisheries and forests for achieving social, environmental, gender and intergenerational justice, and demand that States, the FAO and the entire UN system comply with their obligations to realize the right to land.
We call upon the FAO to take the lead in organizing another International Conference on Agrarian Reform, in order to coordinate a global response to the increasing and unsustainable concentration of land and natural resources in the hands of a few powerful actors. The process leading up to such a conference needs to ensure the adequate, effective and autonomous participation of rights holder organizations. States should provide financial support to enable such a conference.