Uphold the rights of people, communities, and countries to determine their own systems of production, including farming, fishing, food, forestry, and land policies that are ecologically, socially, economically, and culturally appropriate to the circumstances. People’s, especially women’s access to and control over productive resources such as land, seeds, and water must be respected and guaranteed. Agricultural production must rely principally on local knowledge, appropriate technology, and ecologically sustainable techniques that bind CO2 in the diverse and native plant systems, bind water, and return more nutrients to the soil than were taken out. Food and agricultural production must be primarily geared towards meeting local needs, encourage self-sufficiency, promote local employment, and minimize resource use, waste and GHG emissions in the process.