22/07/2020
State of the Right to Food and Nutrition Report 2020
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Report issued by the Global Network on the Right to Food and Nutrition
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.
22/07/2020
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Report issued by the Global Network on the Right to Food and Nutrition
11/10/2019
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The United Kingdom (UK) is in the midst of a crisis: a widening gap between the haves and have-nots, austerity, a deepening of racism, islamophobia, homophobia and xenophobia, increasing far right extremism, entrenchment of corporate power, and neoliberal politics are an everyday reality. Brexit has plunged the UK into a crisis of uncertainty. The UK is mired in a poverty crisis, a welfare crisis, a housing crisis, a hunger crisis, and a human rights crisis. Amid these multiple crises, the impact on women of color remains invisible.
21/11/2016
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The EU launch of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2016 allowed the first public debate within the European Parliament on the international dimension of seed policies and regulations as well as the implicit role of the EU.
13/10/2016
Protecting the Rural and Localizing Human Rights Accountability more
This article addresses ongoing discussions in preparation of Habitat III, the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. Its authors argue that we need to react against the urbanization of the development agenda, and the long-held dichotomy of rural and urban spaces. The Urban Food Policy Pact, a mayor-led initiative that seeks to create a stronger governance framework for local food systems, is an interesting example of how to reinforce the role of local governments in the transition towards territorial food systems. A complementary insight box explores the recent recognition, at the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), that territorial markets – not corporate supply systems and international value chains – channel the bulk of the food consumed worldwide. At the CFS, the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) has negotiated a number of policy recommendations that could help document, protect, and support the variety of domestic marketing arrangements that play a crucial role for the realization of the right to food and nutrition. The key role played by Detroit's African American population in the setting up of the city's Food Policy Council is highlighted in a second insight box.
13/10/2016
Building a Strong and United People more
Focusing on West Africa and on regional efforts to articulate struggles around land and water, this article emphasizes the importance of bringing together various social movements and NGOs, and of establishing strong links across countries to put pressure on institutions and governments, defend communities' rights, and promote peasant agroecology.
13/10/2016
A Tool for Social Movements’ Struggles more
This article features a preliminary assessment of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (the Tenure Guidelines or TGs) from the perspective of social movements. It argues that the TGs are increasingly becoming a tool for social movements across the world to demand peoples' sovereignty over natural resources and social justice from governments. The publication of a People's Manual on the use of the Tenure Guidelines by social movements themselves is a positive example of how the TGs have enlarged the space of small-scale food producer organizations to jointly act.
13/10/2016
Two Sides of the Same Coin more
This article looks at Myanmar, where civil society has effectively used the Tenure Guidelines to show where national policy and legal developments around land have fallen short of international standards, while underlining the legitimacy of grassroots perspectives. This experience reflects the potential impact of the Tenure Guidelines when they become a tool for social movements in their struggles, as previously highlighted.
13/10/2016
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This article and complementary insight box turn the spotlight on people-centered monitoring of the right to food and nutrition. The authors invite us to move away from abstract metrics that focus on outcomes, and to pay attention to the ways in which these outcomes are achieved. The participation of civil society in identifying and monitoring the primary barriers to food sovereignty is key to measuring the progressive realization of the right to food and nutrition, and to disentangling human rights monitoring from the industrialized agribusiness agenda.