Handbook 2021.
This publication has been developed to support the joint implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines and the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable SmallScale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines) through an integrated approach and to increase policy coherence and uptake. The document provides an overview of the contents of these voluntary guidelines and identifies potential synergies. It also explains the human rights-based approach and discusses some crucial areas, with special attention to the specific roles and responsibilities of key actors.

Brief, 2021

The right to adequate food is the right to feed oneself in dignity. It is recognized in international human rights declarations and treaties and in the constitutions and laws of various countries. Although this right is not expressly recognized in the text of the current Chilean Constitution, the process of drafting a new constitution offers a valuable opportunity to do so. This would help drive the great changes required to achieve their effective realization for all people, leaving no one behind. (only in Spanish).

Handbook for parliamentarians,  No. 2, 2020.
This handbook introduces nutrition and food systems, identifies entry points for parliamentary interventions to improdiets and nutrition through a food-systems approach and recommends actions parliamentarians can take in terms of their mandates-legislation, oversight, budget and representation.

Fact sheet, 2021

The General Assembly has recognized the negative impact of climate change on food security. 80 per cent of disasters in recent years have been climate change-related extreme weather events, which have severely hit food insecure countries.

Consumer organizations represent the interests and concerns of consumers. They empower and increase consumers’ understanding of their rights, including the right to adequate food. Consumers have a key role in changing our agri-food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Michael Fakhri, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, underlined in this video message, delivered ahead of side event CFS 47, the linkages between environment, people´s rights and government.

During the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), panelists approached the topic of the right to food with a focus on the people currently hardest hit by COVID 19 from different perspectives.