20th anniversary of the Right to Food Guidelines - Call for inputs on the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (RTFG).
The right to food is a legally binding right, guaranteed in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It is realized when everyone has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement, as established in General Comment 12, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).
The Right to Food Guidelines provide practical guidance for States on how to realize the right to adequate food through the development of strategies, programmes, policies and legislation. They were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and adopted by FAO Council in November 2004, after two years of intergovernmental negotiations and multi-stakeholder participation.
Governments have legal obligations to ensure the right to food, while everyone is entitled to enjoy it as a universal right, without discrimination. Moreover, all of us, individuals or collectives, including government officials, lawmakers, local communities, non-governmental organizations, academics, consumer organizations, youth groups, Indigenous Peoples, small holders, women’s organizations, civil society organizations as well as the private sector are crucial actors in the realization of the right to adequate food.
The RTFG anticipated the urgency of today’s most pressing global challenges to achieving sustainable development, including conflicts, inequalities, diseases, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. In our complex world with ever-growing and changing challenges, the Guidelines prove as relevant as ever. They remind us of the importance of international cooperation and collaboration towards the collective public good of ending hunger, malnutrition in all its forms, poverty and inequality. Their full implementation contributes to our efforts towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), themselves grounded in human rights.
The last 5 years have been particularly challenging with the COVID-19 pandemic, increased hunger and malnutrition in all its forms, rising inequalities, and a cost-of-living crisis. Innovative responses have been implemented by governments and other actors globally. 20 years on, it is time to take stock of progress and consider key takeaways.
Have your say where it matters!
Looking towards the 20th anniversary of the Right to Food Guidelines, the results of this call will help inform on efforts made to realize the right to adequate food at local, national, regional or global level, and provide an important stock taking opportunity for countries and their people.
The FAO Right to Food Team and the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) invite stakeholders to:
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Share your experiences and good practices on the realization of the right to food for everyone, always. |
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Identify any gaps, constraints and challenges encountered in realizing the right to food or in implementing the Right to Food Guidelines. |
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Share any lessons learned and suggest recommendations for improvement in realizing the right to adequate food. |
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Next steps: are there any concrete plans to (further) use and apply the Guidelines? |
How to take part in this Call for Submissions
Please share your experience(s) using the following template: Link to Template
Submissions can be made in any of the 6 UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). Please keep the length of submissions limited to 1,000 words. You can upload the completed form here or, alternatively, send it to [email protected].
The Call for Submissions is open until 8 January 2024.
We thank you very much for your valuable contributions and look forward to learning from your experiences.
Co-Facilitators:
- Marie-Lara Hubert-Chartier, Right to Food Specialist
- Claire Mason, Right to Food Adviser
- Sarah Brand, Associate Professional Officer
- Chiara Cirulli, Economist (Food Security and Nutrition Policy), the CFS Secretariat
References
- Right to Food Guidelines
- Fifteen years implementing the RTFG
- RTF Handbooks
- RTF Methodological Toolbox
Please read the article on more FAO publications on this topic here.
- Read 112 contributions
Saludos, envió formato para convocatoria
Convocatorias para la presentación de temas:
Vigésimo aniversario de las Directrices sobre el derecho a la alimentación: convocatoria para la presentación de contribuciones sobre la realización del derecho humano a una alimentación adecuada. Muy agradecida espero atenta su respuesta.
Dr. Carmen Maria Carrero G.
Specialist in Child Clinical Nutrition. PhD Health Sciences.
Researcher Professor. Polciencias Associate Category.
Diploma in Counseling in Breastfeeding UNICEF .
Member of the Colombian Clinical Nutrition Society.
Diploma in Research Methodology; Diploma in Kidney Patient Nutrition CELAN; Diploma in AIEPT Community Univ Antioquia.
Active member of the Breastfeeding Network in Atlantico Colombia.
Advisor and jury of the thesis of the Master's Degree in Food and Nutritional Safety Universidad del Atlántico.
Par Evaluator Health Uninorte Magazine Nefrología Colombia Magazine.
Par Evaluator open accent Nutrition Health magazine .
Par Evaluator of Duazary magazine. Univ de Magdalena.
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Please find my submission for the Call for inputs on the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food
Thank you for the opportunity
Best regards
Dr. Moira
Mangalore, South India
Dear FSN colleagues,
Thank you for the opportunity to submit the experience about the steps that UNICEF Argentina is contributing to realizing children’s right to adequate food and nutrition.
Best regards,
Verónica Risso Patrón
UNICEF ARGENTINA
Hello
Please find attached a submission to the call for inputs on the realisation of the human right to adequate food.
Please could you confirm receipt of this,
Best Wishes,
Tilly
Tilly Robinson-Miles
Policy and Parliamentary Engagement Manager
I am sending by attachment contribution to
Call for inputs on the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food
Bonjour à tous
Hello all
Thank you for this initiatives..... I read previous contributions with great interest!
I appreciate especially the suggestions by Martin Nissen, and the reference to the (wrong focus) on ''single-targeted development approach''.....
Ultimately, the political will of governments to promote ''holistic development'' is critical, creating an enabling environment for all potential actors to play their roles effectively.... Engaging the private sector could be more emphasized here ... International NGOs like CARE (USA) have been investing heavily on innovative initiatives (@Feed the Future) to engage the private sector, especially to create employment opportunities for poor rural women, which ensures their ''control of income'' and bargaining power.... Linking entrepreneurial rural women with merchants in urban and semi-urban areas, such initiatives promoted a ''Microfranchising...''' Projects whereby women access consumable industrial goods (e.g iodized salt, soap, food oil, etc) in ''bulk'' which they would then distribute and sell in rural villages with small margin of profit. ... This enabled women not only to access demand-driven industrial items, but also can access it on credit bases (guarantees facilitated by the programme). ... It opened a new opportunity for earning income for women, but also enabled rural people to easily access such goods, sometimes also creating new demand for such goods.... Availability of such goods often promote inspirations among rural people, including more willingness to exert more effort of work to acquire income that would be needed to buy them (=Supply creates its own demand...??).... One key challenge reported in some African cases has been reluctance of the private sector to participate, or appreciate the BUSINESS CASE of such engagements.
Related report for Catholic Relief Service (CRS/USAID) is posted at
https://assets.fsnforum.fao.org/public/discussions/contributions/Report…
I look forward to hear more
Regards,
Getaneh ([email protected])
Dear FSN colleagues,
Thank you for the opportunity to share best practices relating to the realization of the human right to adequate food.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments created a global School Meals Coalition with the twin aims of reopening schools and of rebuilding more resilient school-based health systems. Today, 82 countries, comprising more than half the world’s population, are delivering on this response, and school-based coverage of some key school-based programmes exceeds those from January 2020.
As the first initiative of the School Meals Coalition, the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition aims to support governments with scaling and strengthening their national programs by 2030 by:
- Providing evidence on the effectiveness of school feeding programmes for learning, social and physical outcomes of children and youth across the world to make the case for investment in school-based health and nutrition programmes; and
- Providing policymakers with programmatic guidance on the optimal policies to be implemented with regard to health, nutrition, and education.
In response to your call for submissions, please find attached a short summary about this effort.
With best wishes,
The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
Estimados señores:
me permito enviar el documento anexo como una contribución.
Saludos cordiales,
Javier Aroca
Coordinador de Proyecto PER 1142 y PER 1145
Welthungerhilfe
Oficina de Enlace
Bolivia y Perú
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