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Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States discontinue all sedentarization and other programmes that coerce indigenous peoples to forsake shifting cultivation for other modes of cultivation without their free, prior and informed consent. Alternative modes of cultivation ensure food sovereignty, livelihood security, health security, educational security and forest conservation and other safeguards.

Area of Work: Culture, Economic and Social Development