Brief, 2016.

Developed jointly by the Right to Food Team and the Decent Rural Employment Team, this Brief argues that consolidating the synergies between the two rights through a human rights-based approach can enhance the impact of food security, rural development and poverty reduction interventions to better and more efficiently contribute to FAO’s mandate.

While being universal, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated, the right to adequate food and the right to decent work have rarely been addressed in an integrated manner. Given the severity of the poverty and hunger situations across the globe, the urgency to combine efforts to increase the efficiency and scope of positive actions could not be greater. 

By using some well-known programmes, strategies and acts that have already linked both human rights in their programming, the Brief reviews some of the lessons-learned and proposes a way forward to enhance increased joint work in rural areas. Hence, this Brief consolidates FAO’s promotion of a more integrated human rights-based approach to food security, rural development and poverty reduction, which in turn contributes to the realization of the right to adequate food and the attainment of the right to decent work.