21/11/2022
As competition to control the world’s water resources increases the 2022 Right to Food and Nutrition Watch calls for global fisheries governance that recognizes small-scale fishers as custodians of water ecosystems and protects their rights from the onslaught of extractive industries and other commercial interests.
13/10/2021
Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2021 more
12/10/2021
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Activists urge UN member states to reject false solutions to world hunger from corporations pursuing profits as GNRtFN launches Right to Food and Nutrition Watch exposing ‘wrong menu’ offered by industrial food systems
20/07/2021
New report places spotlight on the right to food and nutrition in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic more
The State of the Right to Food and Nutrition report is a joint endeavor of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition, supported by its secretariat, FIAN International.
20/07/2021
A new civil society report outlines how Covid-19 spotlights existing inequalities more
Can problems be solved without first knowing their roots?
Identifying hurdles, but remaining silent or hazy on where these stem from appears to be the constant predicament of the annual global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition jointly produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development, UN Children's Fund, World Food Programme, and the World Health Organization.
07/07/2021
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The Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (GNRTFN) has reaffirmed its commitment to continue being the watchdog for governments and non-state actors that impose measures and take actions preventing people from accessing adequate food and nourishing themselves.
22/03/2021
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"Criminalized and marginalized" despite a 24-year-old post-apartheid Constitution that enshrines the right of access to sufficient food and guarantees social justice and equality for all, thousands of small-scale fishers called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to secure their right to food and sustainable livelihood as South Africa celebrated Human Rights Day on March 21.
20/03/2021
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More than three years since India was rocked by the story of a child from Jharkhand state, who had shrunk to skin and bones and was said to have pleaded for rice before she died famished, the country's Supreme Court (SC) has finally heard the plea to compel the central government to explain its side on starvation deaths allegedly caused by the cancellation of cards that authorized poor people to buy staples at subsidized prices.
03/03/2021
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Right to food activists have lauded UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri's findings on the impacts of COVID-19 on the right to food and nutrition (RTFN) and his push to place human rights, including the RTFN as the central theme of the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS).
01/03/2021
'It must empower people to participate' more
Civil society and indigenous peoples groups across the globe opposing corporate influence in the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) have found an ally in UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri, who recently called for the latter's bigger participation in the said conference that aims to eliminate hunger and malnutrition by transforming world food systems.
04/02/2021
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Amid the continuous surge of Covid-19 cases in Brazil, making it the second worst coronavirus-hit country in the world in terms of deaths, civil society groups have called on the government to continue providing food to children, who have been out of school due to the pandemic, by keeping Brazil under a state of public calamity.
17/01/2021
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There's nothing unclear or uncertain about what the Food and Agriculture Organization wants to achieve. As posted on its website, the FAO says that its goal is not just to achieve food security for all, but also ensure that the food that can be accessed by anyone at any time is of high-quality and can help people become active and healthy.
