Economic access includes both the use of productive land and other natural resources to directly produce food and to gener- ate income as well as functioning distribution, processing and market systems that can move food from the site of production to where it is demanded. Thus, the existing ability to individually or communally cultivate land (on the basis of ownership or other form of tenure) must be protected. Under human rights law, people who depend on land (water, forest) for their livelihood, have a right to this land even if the national law does not grant them explicit use or tenure.
