Д-р. Muhammad Hidayat Greenfield
Organizing small scale fishers and small and marginal aquaculture farmers to ensure collective representation and to develop collective capacities to negotiate fair prices and incomes. Developing the capacity of community-based organizations of small scale fishers and artisanal fishers to protect their rights, livelihoods and food security in the face of the overexpansion of large-scale commercial fishing as well as climate change impacts. In addition to this, we are working on policy intervention and trade union and community-based responses to the impact of climate change and child labour in fisheries and aquaculture.
Dr Muhammad Hidayat Greenfield has been involved in worker education and training in East and Southeast Asia since 1995, and in 2002 joined the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF). In 2016 Hidayat was elected as the Regional Secretary for the Asia/Pacific Regional Organization and in this role he is responsible for IUF members in 21 countries in the region. As part of the regional activities involved in defending the rights, health and livelihoods of food workers, marginal farmers and fisherfolk, and to promote the right to food and food security, Hidayat is working with IUF members to develop rights-based strategies to promote climate justice and support food systems workers and their communities in the face of catastrophic climate change.
Д-р. Muhammad Hidayat Greenfield
Over the past two decades the Right to Food Guidelines have played an extremely important role in institutionalizing the right to food in policy and regulations at international, national, and subnational level. It has also provided CSOs, community-based organizations of small-scale fishers and farmers and trade unions with a tool for advocacy and policy intervention that asserts the right to food as a human right and integrates it with a broader set of rights. Of course, widespread hunger, malnutrition and undernutrition remain an urgent challenge in a global food system shaped by excessive corporate power, systemic inequality, and exclusion. The 20th anniversary provides an important opportunity to reassess the lack of progress in many countries to ensure access to the right to food and to create pathways for its realization.
In our submission we call for the inclusion and strengthening of the Guidelines with regards to:
Dr Muhammad Hidayat Greenfield, Regional Secretary
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) Asia/Pacific