The Right to Food
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Small-scale fisheries and the right to food: a path towards ending hunger

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Strong support to the right to food echoes throughout the High Level meeting of the Committee on World Food Security

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World Food Day highlights the right to food as crucial for hunger eradication

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There is no food security without plant health

Generally understood as the right to feed oneself in dignity, the right to adequate food is a long-standing international human right to which many countries are committed. Over the last decades, a number of countries have developed and implemented constitutional amendments, national laws, strategies, policies and programmes that aim at the fulfilment for all of the right to food.

The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement.

– General Comment 12 (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, CESCR, 1999). 

Right to Food Guidelines
Right to Food Methodological Toolbox
Right to Food Handbooks
E-learning

Publications

Linkages between the Voluntary Guidelines for SSF and the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food
Available in:
English

Videos

Overview of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and its Work

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