This year´s Human Rights Day begins the countdown to the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which FAO continuous to be firmly committed.

Climate change is a human rights issue, and human rights must guide the solution.

Food and social protection are human rights. Social protection and the right to food are key to building efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, that leave no one behind.

This year´s World Food Safety Day recognized that safer food is key for better health and called to protect the poorest from unsafe food, as they are the most affected.

Safeguarding schoolchildren’s nutrition is a human rights issue.

Respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights in and through agricultural investments is essential to end hunger and build resilient food systems. 

Food is a human right. Yet hundreds of millions are still going to bed hungry. FAO´s Right to Food Guidelines recommend how to take action, so that everyone has access to sufficient, safe, nutritious and affordable food every day.

The FMM programme on "Evidence-based policy, global instruments and knowledge products" has a relevant component on the right to food. This focuses on development on advocacy and training materials to enhance policy coherence in the joint application of global instruments (CFS-RAI, RtF, SSF or VGGT ) in the different countries, and contribute to implement more inclusive governance and coordination mechanisms.

The latest FAO + Spain Report highlights the cooperation between FAO and Spain in the last ten years, mainly in the fisheries sector and in the promotion of policies for the right to food, the protection of plant genetic resources and the improvement of food security.