of women in the informal sector. 260. Individual disputes and group conflicts in the area of labour are governed by Articles 298 to 329 of the Labour Code. Economic conflicts are brought before the commercial courts. 261. However, the implementation of legislative measures taken due to the lack of a substantial State budget to support the execution of all these measures. The effect of this situation is that women are left ignorant of their economic rights and victims of several attendant violations as a result of the poor level of sensitization and their poor level of education. 262. Finally, women, particularly those in the rural areas, find it difficult to access formal employment; although legislative measures have been taken to organize the agricultural sector, they are in the informal agricultural sector which is still not well structured in the country.  RIGHT TO FOOD SECURITY (ARTICLE 15) 263. Article 47 of the Constitution of 18 February, 2006 guarantees the right to food security. Article 48 also guarantees the right of access to potable water and electricity. The main source of hydroelectric power production in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the Inga dam. However, a substantial part of this production is meant for export, thereby making the rate of access to electricity by the local population very low: 1% in the rural areas, 30% in the cities and 6% at the national level, whereas the Sub-Saharan African average stands at 24.6%. Mindful of this situation, the Government has redefined its policy in order to increase the capacity of the Inga, recover all its exports earnings and to enable the population to have better access to electric energy. 264. The population also has poor access to potable water: 12% in the rural areas and 37% in the urban communities; in addition, the sources and wells used by the population are often not protected. With the collaboration of development partners, particularly GIZ, the Government is striving to strengthen the capacity of the REGIDESO (26 out of its 94 water distribution centres were completely destroyed during the armed conflicts in the East of the country). 265. Among legislative measures taken to implement specifically protected food security rights, mention can be made of the following:  Law No. 11/022 of 24 December, 2011 on the fundamental principles relating to agriculture which stipulates in Article 1 that the fundamental principles on agriculture aim at promoting agriculture and the growth of agricultural production in order to ensure food security and the development of the rural areas;  Law No. 82-002 of 28 May, 1982 on the regulation of hunting (explanatory statement and Article 53 relating to the issuance of individual rural hunting permits to inhabitants of rural communities and villages and Article 54 relating to group hunting permits). 266. To save the Congolese population from hunger and malnutrition, the interventions identified by the government focus on the following: (i) improvement in the productivity of smallholders, particularly in the rural areas; (ii) development of “other income-generating activities in the rural areas” and improvement in access (iii) introduction of nutrition programmes and monitoring of food and nutritional security; (iv) improvement in rural activities, and (v) strengthening of the agricultural management and monitoring-evaluation system. These interventions will strengthen the capacity of women working in the rural agricultural sector. 267. Since 2000, the DRC has adopted a national nutrition policy, the implementation and application of which have been assigned to the National Nutrition Programme (PRONANUT) to put an end to the precarious nutritional situation of its population. Between 2010 and 2012, the Government also granted subsidies to farmers in the form of improved seeds and other inputs in order to improve their productivity and food supply as well as to ensure a reduction in food prices. Many women have been beneficiaries of these subsidies. 54