French Position Paper – For an approach respecting Human Rights, Food Security and Sustainable Development

This position paper was elaborated based on the reflections of an extending working group involving members of French Cooperation’s “Land and Development” Technical Committee (CTF), the French Inter-Ministerial Food Security Group (GISA) and civil society organizations (Large-scale land appropriations. Analysis of the phenomenon and proposed guidelines for future  action, Technical Committee on “Land tenure and development”, Agence Française de Développement, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, June 2010). It was validated by the Secretariat of the Inter-Ministerial International Cooperation and Development Committee (CICID) in June 2010.