E/C.12/BFA/CO/1 among women and persons living in rural areas, who are disproportionately affected (art. 11). 33. The Committee recommends that the State party redouble its efforts to combat poverty, especially extreme poverty, by ensuring that the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development is implemented from a rights-based perspective and provided with the necessary resources, and by giving priority to the needs of the most disadvantaged and marginalized individuals, families and social groups. The Committee recalls its Statement on Poverty and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2001). Food insecurity and malnutrition 34. The Committee is concerned at the fact that, despite the implementation of the national programme for the development of agricultural services and other programmes, food insecurity affects a large proportion of the population. Notwithstanding the progress made in addressing malnutrition, the Committee is concerned at the alarming persistence of acute malnutrition among children under the age of 5 years and at the prevalence of the noma disease. The Committee notes that the policy of promoting agro-industry in the State party has a harmful effect on family farms in the fertile areas of the country and can hamper the realization of the right to food of the most vulnerable strata of society, in particular on account of the resulting undue concentration of resources. It regrets the delays incurred with the implementation of the programme for the issue of land titles provided for under Act No. 34-2009/AN on the rural land tenure system, as well as the lack of a decree enforcing article 74 of the Act (art. 11). 35. The Committee recommends that the State party redouble its efforts to guarantee the right to adequate food and to step up the struggle against hunger and malnutrition, in particular for children under the age of 5 years. It notes that it might be useful in this respect to introduce a framework law on the right to food. The Committee also recommends that the State party introduce measures to encourage the rational use of land and to end existing discriminatory practices, particularly as they affect smallholders, and to supervise agricultural investments strictly in order to ensure that they do not impede access to resources by local communities and that the conditions to which investors are subject are strictly supervised. It refers in this respect to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, adopted in 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security. The Committee also recommends that the State party take steps to promote access by smallholders to appropriate technology and to improve their access to local markets, in order to raise incomes in rural areas, particularly by promoting the spread of agroecological practices. The Committee would refer the State party to its general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food and to the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Forced eviction 36. The Committee is concerned at the forced eviction of a large number of families in rural areas, in Kounkoufouanou, Essakane and elsewhere, as a result of gold-mining operations and agro-industry (art. 11). 37. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt effective measures against forced eviction, in line with international human rights standards, and guarantee the victims of forced evictions an effective remedy to obtain restitution of their property or the grant of adequate compensation. The Committee would refer the GE.16-11935 7