Health and Environment Committee
Worsening land degradation caused by human activities (agricultural practices, pollution, urbanization, deforestation, erosion…) is undermining the well-being of two fifths of humanity, driving the extinction of species and intensifying climate change. All the ecosystems (land aquatic and marine) are affected: (IPBES march 2018).
How can we combat land degradation and restore degraded land to protect the biodiversity and ecosystem services vital to all life on Earth, and to ensure human well-being?
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Human Rights Committee
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The right of the soil :
65 million people around the world have been forced from home – among them nearly 22.5 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18.
65 walls have been built or planned around the world, over half of which after 2010. From beginning to end, these walls are 40,000 kilometers long, namely the circumference of the Earth.
While international rules and humanitarian right seem to be powerless, how can we solve the migrant crisis?
Economic and Social Committee :
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Areas granted, leased or sold to TNCs (=Trans-National Companies) for agribusiness, expropriated peasants, disappearing family farming. Throughout Africa, land-grabbing affects more than 50 million hectares. What is at stake?
This has resulted in an increasing demand for bio-fuels and the prices of food products are rocketing.
How is the challenge of land-use governance for agriculture to be addressed in Africa, the continent that is going to see its population double by 2050?