The right to food

This publication outlines a range of concrete examples to demonstrate that access to justice is possible and useful to protect the victims of violations of the right to food. In the first section, we show that the traditional arguments against the justiciability of the right to food are today outdated. In the second part, we describe the conditions for ensuring that the victims of violations of the right to food have access to justice. We lay out the legal systems in which the access to justice is possible, and address the remaining gaps in other legal systems. Finally, we provide an analysis of current international, regional, and national jurisprudence and assess the impact of the access to justice on the full realization of the right to food.

An overview of the Right to food in the Philippines and presentation of the Civil society actions.

Presentation of FAO guidelines to put the right to food into practice.

The purpose of the Methodological Toolbox is to provide a practical aid for the implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines. It contains a series of analytical, educational and normative tools that offer guidance and hands-on advice on the practical aspects of the right to food. It covers a wide range of topics such as assessment, legislation, education, budgeting and monitoring. It emphasises the operational aspects of the right to food and contributes to strengthening in-country capacity to implement this right.

Two years after taking office as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to food, Prof. Olivier De Schutter presents a review of the progress made by a number of countries in implementing the human right to food at national level.

According to FAO, monoculture is the agricultural practice of cultivating a single crop over a whole farm or area. The conventional/productive agricultural system, also known as the industrial model of agriculture, is characterized by its preference for monocultures and large-scale agriculture - utilizing intensive production practices that rely heavily on the use of capital, technology and external petrochemical inputs. It orients itself towards the national market and increasingly more towards the global market due to the liberalization of commercial agriculture and food security policies based on international trade.

Peasants have always been among the first victims of hunger and multiple violations of human rights all over the world. For hundreds of years they have been forcibly evicted from their lands. Their claims have been met by violent repression. Every year thousand of peasants are killed defending their rights to land, water, seeds and other productive resources.

In the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000, States made a commitment to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of people with no access to safe drinking water and to sanitation. The aim of this critical report is to promote the protection of the right to water and the right to sanitation.

This critical report aims to put the food crisis in context – structural hunger – and to place the approach based on the right to food at the centre of reflections on the current crisis and on possible ways to overcome chronic hunger and malnutrition.