INDICATORS

  • Non discrimination

    • General Equal Treatment Act of 2006

      • Transposed all four equality directives of the EU into one law.
      • Gender, race and ethnicity, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation,
  • Outcomes

    • 1%

    • 25%

  • People’s Sovereignty over natural resources

    • Privatised seeds:

      • Farmers can harvest and sow them again with restrictions
      • Can’t harvest and sell them
      • Can be used to breed new ones
      • Extends to similar pre existing varieties.

       

      Infringement of rules:

      • Can be seized
      • Can be destroyed
      • Harvest can be seized
      • Product made from harvest seized
      • Can be fined
      • Fungicides and Bactericides: 10109.60
      • Herbicides: 17858.90
      • Insecticides: 1095.50
  • Political Participation for the Right to Food

    Participation is one of the fundamental human rights principles, requiring that everyone has the right to participate in making decisions that affect them. In order to ensure that those most affected by violations to the right to food and nutrition participate in political processes, it is essential to have the legal and policy infrastructure within national frameworks, as well as the participatory spaces that give meaningful space for participation.

    • Germany has directive principles that contribute to the realization of the right to adequate food. [Party to the ICESC 1973 by ratification]

      Constitutional Recognitions of the Right to adequate food

      Directive Principles of state policy

      Article 1:”The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and justice in the world.”

      National Status of International Obligations

      Article 25: “The general rules of international law shall be an integral part of federal law. They shall take precedence over the laws and directly create rights and duties for the inhabitants of the federal territory.”

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