KNU land policy (English Version)

increases risk and the debt cycle.
3.8.3 In enacting further laws or policies governing land use, the KNU
Authorities, through the Central Land Committee, will further
study the issue of “contract farming” to determine what further
provisions should be adopted to insure that contract farming is
conducted in a manner that benefits farmers and recognizes,
protects and fulfills obligations under international human rights
law and instruments.
Article 3.9 Investment
3.9.1 Investment in agriculture involves the commitment of multiple
resources (including natural, human, social, cultural, physical
and financial), by KNU Authorities as well as village communities
and individual households that serve multiple purposes, e.g.,
building up soil fertility, sustaining cultural practices and rituals,
generating opportunities for the next generation of rural youth,
etc. Accordingly, investment in agriculture involves much more
than the mobilization of financial capital in order to generate a
profit.
3.9.2 Investment, public or private, which ignores the imperatives for
peace and social justice, present and future public welfare, social
reproduction and which is subsidized by vast ecological debts,
cannot be considered sustainable.
3.9.3 Responsible investments do no harm, safeguard against
dispossession of legitimate tenure right holders and environmental
damage, and should respect human rights. They should strive
to further contribute to this policy’s vision and objectives, to
poverty eradication, to food security and sustainable use of land,
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