The United Nations' Declaration on Peasants' Rights

Mariagrazia Alabrese is Associate Professor at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. Adriana Bessa is a Brazilian lawyer, independent researcher, and guest lecturer at the Université Catholique de Lille and the Universidad de Alicante. Margherita Brunori is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Science at the University of Trento and in the Departmnt of Law at the University of Brescia, Italy. Pier Filippo Giuggioli is Associate Professor in the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law at the University of Milan, Italy.

Foreword Introduction 1. The Peasants’ Declaration: State Obligations and Justiciability Part I – Rights Holders 2. Defining Peasants in the UNDROP 3. Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Local Communities in the UNDROP: Synergies and Challenges 4. No Food Sovereignty without Feminism? Negotiating Gender Equality in the UNDROP 5. Shedding a Light on the Human Rights of Small-scale Fishers: Complementarities and Contrasts between the UNDROP and the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines Part II – Natural Resources Access and Control 6. The Right to Land 7. The Rights to Water and Sanitation and the UNDROP: the Implementation Challenges of a Comprehensive Approach 8. The Right to Seeds: Using the Commons as a Sustainable Governance Scheme to Implement Peasants’ Rights? 9. The Rights to Food and Food Sovereignty in the UNDROP Part III – Food and Agriculture Governance 10. Peasants Rights and Food Systems Governance 11. The UNDROP and Climate Change: Squaring the Circle? 12. Farming Models and Peasants’ rights 13. The UNDROP, Biocultural Rights, and Sustainability Standards for Agri-food Systems Part IV – The Declaration on the Ground 14. Land Tenure: Assessing Kenya’s Legal Approach and the Practice towards Landlessness amongst Rural Smallholder Farmers Including Women’s Rights 15. Reimagining Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Innovation from the Grassroots up: The Case of the Peliti Seed Network in Greece 16. The Rights of Small-Scale Fisherwomen in the EU: the Potential Impact of the UNDROP 17. The UNDROP and the Case Law of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Potential Impacts and Insights from Hacienda Brasil Verde Case 18. Land Acquisition and Public Interest Litigation in India Conclusion