It also proposed an analysis methodology of agrarian systems that integrates a gender perspective.

The principal measures aimed at improving agrarian systems are marketing and the conservation of agricultural land.

The majority of Africa's people live in rural areas. However, the agrarian systems are generally weak and unproductive.

The gender division of labor differs depending on the existing agrarian system as well as socio-economic and cultural factors.

“Aware of the obligations of States to develop or reform agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources,

Aware of the obligations of States to develop or reform agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources,

No measures have been deemed necessary to ensure that the agrarian system is efficiently utilized, given the small size and relative affluence of the community.

Article 11(2) (a) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights refers to developing or reforming agrarian systems as a means of ensuring the fundamental right to be free from hunger.

Under article 11, paragraph 2 (a), States are committed to “developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources”.

As regards the right of everyone to be free from hunger, to improve methods of production and the methods of distribution of food and the reform of agrarian systems, the State has ensured that basic commodities and foodstuffs are available at acceptable prices, by the policy of subsidizing prices in relation with the increase in standards of living.