Critical perspective: globalization and commodification of food systems Loss of biodiversity and environmental degradation

40. Indigenous peoples are custodians of 80 per cent of the world’s remaining biodiversity, but are facing severe food insecurity, extreme poverty and other human rights deprivations. Despite the protections set forth in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, mining projects, hydroelectric developments, the creation of national parks and the designation of protected areas have compromised the rights of indigenous peoples in Argentina, Bangladesh, Botswana, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Namibia, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Uganda and elsewhere (see A/HRC/42/37).