31 August 2021, Rome - "Every individual and every organ of society … shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms." - Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.

The right to food is a cross-cutting issue. There are many dimensions interrelated, actors and processes involved, diversity of visions, subtle difference between concepts or emerging issues.

In order for every person to be able to fulfil the right to adequate food, or to advocate for its implementation, an understanding of certain issues and skills are needed.  

The materials available on this page are studies, platforms and other resources that have been recently published not only by FAO but also other entities, sometimes issues in one or more of the six official FAO languages. The selection of items has been made by the FAO Right to Food Team, who aims to share information, provide practical guidance and stimulate debate on various aspects of the right to food.

Over 2021 FAO will be posting an update of these resources.

We hope you find them useful and enjoy this food for thought!

 Selection of right to food-related resources in August

Food Systems Summit 2021

Last chance to make the Food Systems Summit truly a “people’s summit” | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | It offers critical observations on areas for improvements with regard to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit, with a view to making it a truly transformative, rights-based and multilateral event. It provides guidance to States in their deliberations at the Summit.

Rural development

Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development : report of the Secretary-General | UN Secretary-General

Care

Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study | Susan D Hillis, H Juliette T Unwin et al.  

Agroecology and family farming

Knowledge platforms: Agroecology, Family Farming and Policy Portal  | FAO

Trade

Procuring Food Stocks Under World Trade Organization Farm Subsidy Rules | IISD