Nothing may seem negative or problematic about a blue economy. Google the term and you’ll see how international institutions are enthralled by it, as if it’s the panacea for poverty, hunger, and inequality from the abundant seas.

Land has always been a highly contested good. Control over land and related resources reflect the power relations in a country/region, and are an indicator of existing social injustices. At the same time, these resources are central to the rights, livelihoods and identity of smallscale food producers, and they have been at the heart of the food sovereignty movement from its beginning.

The ‘common cooking pot’ has historical and political significance. At different moments in time, women in Latin America living under authoritarian regimes would come together while cooking around the community pot. They employed this strategy to create a space within which they had the freedom to discuss politics and articulate actions of resistance or respond to severe economic and food crises. Although the practice is not “common” as such throughout the world, the political meaning and use of the ‘common cooking pot’ is seen across borders and contexts.

While many are blaming Covid-19 for causing disruptions in Indonesia’s food supply chains and access to nutrition, Solidaritas Perempuan’s Arieska Kurniawaty said that what the pandemic only did was to further expose the country’s already defective development policies that focused too much on economic growth but failed to ensure and even threatened the social well-being of its people.

Just over a week after the publication of the UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) report presenting the global hunger and food insecurity figures, the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (GNRtFN) releases its 2020 State of the Right to Food and Nutrition Report.

A new report by FIAN International says the industrial food system, rather than feeding the world during the pandemic, is pushing many more to hunger and malnutrition.

This document presents FIAN International’s preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 and the measures taken by governments around the world to contain the pandemic on the human right to food and nutrition (HRtFN).

FIAN International, in its role as Secretariat of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (GNRTFN), expresses its concern about the current global situation triggered by the pandemic of COVID-19. The rapid expansion of the virus is exacerbating systematic violations of the right to food and nutrition (RTFN) that we have been fighting against for decades. We also express our solidarity with all those affected by the virus, as well as those impacted by the negative consequences of measures put in place to halt its spread.

On the occasion of World Food Day, the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition launches "Women’s Power in Food Struggles"