We commit ourselves to continued opposition to transnational agribusiness monopolies on the production, processing and distribution of food. We commit ourselves to the retraining of the formal sector to enable them to recognise the value of farmers' and indigenous peoples' knowledge and practice in conserving and strengthening agricultural biodiversity. We commit ourselves to ensuring that the WTO review process in 1999-2000 to ensuring the removal of agriculture from the Uruguay Round agreement and to the elimination of TRIPs. We commit ourselves to halting public sector subsidies to the private sector including the use of aid money and market monopolisation mechanisms. We are committed to a moratorium on the release and transfer of genetically engineered organisms until a broadly debated and popularly accepted legally binding international biosafety protocol, addressing social and economic as well as environmental impacts, is in place.
Communities have the right to veto at all levels.
We are committed to consumer sovereignty and the right to information through labelling of genetically engineered foods, so that consumers have the choice to boycott such products. We commit ourselves to ensuring public support for community-based, grassroots, and national programmes promoting food security. We commit ourselves to pressuring governments, the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and all other relevant institutions to establish mechanisms and structures that support food self-sufficiency. We commit ourselves to strengthening systems of decentralised food reserves at the household and community levels, creating a system of publicly-controlled food reserves at the national, regional and international levels. We commit ourselves to creating a monitoring mechanism on the activities of transnational corporations, and conducting a global social and ecological audit of their activities, including the impacts of intellectual property rights.