The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has finalized
negotiations guidelines for responsible governance of land tenure and access
rights.
The proposed set of voluntary global guidelines as revealed
to NaijaAgroNet in a press release made available by
FAO also covers issues of fisheries and forest resources and the guidelines are
set for approval from the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
In a reaction to the proposed guidelines, the chairman of
CFS, Yaya Olaniran said the guidelines will be voluntary once approved as they
have been drawn up in such a comprehensive and inclusive process.
"In fact, we're already seeing governments moving to
bring their policies and practices into alignment with the guidelines," he
said.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that the approval of the
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries
and Forests in the Context of National Food Security which was developed over
the past three years will be at a special session in Rome by mid-May.
Equally commenting, José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General
congratulated the participants of the negotiations as it is a milestone
achievement.
"The Voluntary Guidelines will play an important part
in answering the challenge of ending hunger and assuring food security of every
child, woman and man in an economically, socially and environmentally
sustainable way," he said.
It is also gathered that 96 countries including the European
Union as an FAO member organization along with nongovernmental groups, civil
society organizations, UN agencies and other international organizations,
farmers associations and private sector representatives took part in several
rounds of talks by an Open Ended Working Group established by CFS to negotiate
the text of the guidelines.
The last and final round of negotiations was
held March 5 to 9 at FAO's Rome headquarters.
'Yinka Awosanya/LS
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