A/HRC/10/5 page 22 • Seek information about the situation of local markets before deciding on the form in which food aid should be provided, in order to avoid disrupting prices or local agricultural production or, if local purchasing is preferred, contributing to increases in prices which households not covered by the food aid programme may not be able to afford (c) States receiving food aid should: • Ensure an objective mapping of food vulnerability and insecurity, in order to allow adequate targeting of food aid • Examine the potential impacts on local agricultural production and on the affordability of food for the poorest segments of the population, before deciding under which form food aid may be accepted and how it should be distributed • Ensure the delivery of food aid through criteria which are transparent and, in principle, set out in legislation, granting a right to effective remedies to potential beneficiaries which are unjustifiably excluded (d) Members of the World Trade Organization should: • Fully implement the Marrakesh Decision, in particular by adopting guidelines ensuring that an increasing proportion of basic foodstuffs will be provided to least-developed and net food-importing developing countries (LDCs and NFIDCs) negatively affected by the reform programme under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, in fully grant form and/or on appropriate concessional terms, by providing that the States parties to the FAC shall provide food aid at levels which ensure that NFIDCs will at all times be able to ensure an adequate protection of the right to food under their jurisdiction (e) The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights should systematically request that the reports of States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights provide information as to: • Donor States and (a) the proportion of food aid they have committed to deliver in an untied form; (b) the measures they have taken, in their bilateral programmes for the provision of food aid, in order to ensure that the food aid they provide does not undermine, but instead enhances, long-term food security in the recipient State, and the development of its agricultural sector • Whether in food-aid recipient States (a) they have ensured that the food aid they receive fits into a national strategy for the realization of the right to food; (b) the criteria for the attribution of food aid are defined transparently in national legislation, guaranteeing access to recourse mechanisms to any right-holder unjustifiably excluded -----