UN Guidelines to Protect Rights on Land, Fisheries and Forests

11 May 2012, Rome

 

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS), an United Nations-backed committee, published the new Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. The documents, which is not legally binding, represent a set of far-reaching global guidelines to help governments protect the rights of people to own or access land, forests and fisheries.

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