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State of the RIGHT TO FOOD AND NUTRITION 2022

The State of the Right to Food and Nutrition Report 2022 covers the period from July 2021 to December 2022, and it is published when the Right to Food and Nutrition (RTFN) is on the agenda of the Human Rights Council (HRC) session in March 2023. World events compelled us to focus this report on the connections between war, systemic violence, and structural inequality impacting the RTFN. Therefore, we dedicate this edition to people enduring the hardships of conflict, occupation, and war worldwide. This edition provides an annual overview about the situation of the RtFN, giving special attention to the connection between war, systemic violence, and structural inequality impacting this right in times of multiple crises. In doing so, the report focuses on how powerful actors (states and corporations) of the global economic system use conflict, occupation, and war as strategies to create and perpetuate ways of accumulation through food systems. The Special Rapporteur on the right to food’s thematic report titled “Conflict and the Right to Food” highlights that “conflict and natural disasters alone cannot explain that global rates of hunger are expected to hit record humanitarian needs.”1 It is crucial to understand the connection between systemic violence in food systems as part of the global economy: “Systemic violence and structural inequality in food systems are a central feature of a global economy that is supported by relationships of dependence among individuals, countries, international financial institutions and corporations.

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Publisher: y the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition, coordinated by FIAN International
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Author: LL.M. Rosa Angélica Castañeda Flores
Other authors: Ayushi Kalyan, Ana María Suárez Franco, Sabine Pabst, and Valentin Hategekimana
Organization: y the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition, coordinated by FIAN International
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Year: 2023
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Type: Report
Content language: English
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