Visit of the Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas Preliminary Observations

The country stands at the cusp of an agricultural transformation. The Government has taken concrete and commendable steps towards boosting food security, rural development, agricultural modernisation, climate resilience and export competitiveness.

Yet the small-holder farmers, artisanal fishers and pastoralists who constitute the actual backbone of food production continue to suffer from poverty and exclusion from the formulation and implementation of that transformation.