Title: The United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
Abstract: Seventeen years of struggle.That's what it took for the United Nations to adopton December 17, 2018the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP 2018).UNDROP recognises the dignity of the world's rural populations, their contributions to global food production, and the 'special relationship' they have to land, water and nature, as well as their vulnerabilities to eviction, hazardous working conditions and political repression.It reiterates human rights protected in other instruments and sets new standards for individual and collective rights to land and natural resources, seeds, biodiversity and food