Critical Report n° 3, December 2008
Issue: Right to Food
Part of a series of the Human Rights Programme of the Europe - Third World Centre
by Christophe Golay
Adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
(October 2001 to April 2008)
The problem of access to food today is acute. Since the food crisis exploded in Spring 2008, all States, all UN agencies and most social movements have issued declarations on the causes of the crisis and on solutions to resolve it.
Paradoxically, efforts to end hunger and malnutrition, based on the right to food, and promoted by States, the FAO and civil society since 1996, seem to be losing ground just at the point where they might be most useful.
This is the point of departure of this critical report which 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.
Download the critical report :
- The global food crisis and the right to food, Europe-Third World Center, 2008
The annexes can be downloaded at : http://cetim.ch/en/publications_cah...
More information on this issue :
- Website of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter (June 2008-)
- Website of the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler and his team (2000 - June 2008)
- Website of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on the right to food
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