from Right to Food, 09-07-2010

  The Terminology team in CSCM, together with the Right to Food Team in
      ESA are pleased to announce the launch of the

RIGHT TO FOOD ONLINE GLOSSARY

A complete glossary totalling 418 main concepts on the Right to Food has just been published online covering English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian languages (the Arabic version is in progress). It builds on an initial core collection of 37 records in English, Spanish and French including language equivalents and full definitions as well as other attributes such as related terms, remarks, context and source. This online glossary is a collaborative tool with full workflow functions, ensuring sustainability and best practices in terminology dissemination. By giving multilingual clarity, this tool will contribute to raise awareness on the right to food and on the practical implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines adopted by FAO Council in 2004. It is an essential reference to promote this important and specialized field of FAO's work. More...

from Right to Food, 18-06-2010

  Right to Food Assessment Checklist

The Right to Food Team is pleased to make available on the website the updated version of the right to food assessment checklist. Together with the already released Guide to conducting a right to food assessment (available at www.fao.org/righttofood), this new tool shall assist governments and other stakeholders in structuring and conducting national assessments including international human rights principles as well as the core obligations of the right to food. More...

from Right to Food, 12-04-2010

  Legislation and national strategies for the right to food
     - Databases now available -

The right to food team is pleased to make available on the website two important tools that will help to follow up on progress made with respect to the implementation of the right to food.
They will faciliate the exchange of experiences as they bring an overview of the different strategies and laws adopted in 73 countries to create an adequate environment for the realization of this human right. You can now access to:

1) a comprehensive Legal Database which was published together with the Guide for Legislating for the Right to Food. Click here

2) a Database on national strategies for the right to food. Click here

from Right to Food, 16-03-2010

  Briefing on the 13th session of the Human Rights Council
     and the right to food

The 13th session of the Human Rights Council is currently taking place in Geneva from the 1st to the 26th of March 2010. Following the High Level Segment on the economic and financial crisis, the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to food was the opportunity to present the reports of the countries he visited on 2009 as well as a thematic analysis on the Agribusiness and the right to food and an addendum on a set of minimum principles to adopt regarding large scale land acquisitions. More...

from Right to Food, 15-02-2010

  The right to food is now in the Constitution of Brazil

The right to food is now explicitly recognised in the Brazilian Constitution. After being approved by both chambers of the Congress on the 3 of February 2010, the Brazilians adopted the Constitutional Amendment Project (PEC 47/2003) which now establishes the right to food as a constitutional human right. The amendment aimed at including the right to food among other social rights that were already part of article 6 of the Brazilian Constitution and that are equally important for living a dignified live. More...

from Right to Food, 20-11-2009

  World Food Summit on Food Security 2009

The 2009 World Food Summit arrived to an end after three days of discussions in which a large variety of stakeholders addressed key issues for the realization of the right to food. While the Plenary Hall witnessed the statements of delegates and international organizations, the round tables were the occasion to debate crucial issues such as climate change, fair trade rules (particularly the Doha Round) and special measures to address global food governance, including the current reform of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). In the meanwhile, a side event of a wide array of Social Movements, NGOs and CSOs also took place. More...

from Right to Food, 11-11-2009

  The Right to Food at the centre of the World Food Week 2009
      Expert Panel on “The Role of the Right to Food in Addressing the
      Global Food Crisis”

Following the launch of the Toolbox held on 15th October, the Expert Panel on “The Role of the Right to Food in Addressing the Global Food Crisis” brought together the views of economists, policy makers, human rights experts and academia to discuss about the most important issues and challenges of the current food crisis. Chaired by the Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Development, Mr Hafez Ghanem, the panellists answered specific questions regarding the role of human rights in addressing hunger.
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from Right to Food, 11-11-2009

  The Right to Food at the centre of the World Food Week 2009
      The Launch of the Right to Food Toolbox

The 2009 World Food Week hosted two important events in which the right to food was at the centre of the discussions relating the current crisis.
On October 15th, Mr. Jacques Diouf, Director General of FAO, Mr. Hafez Ghanem, Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Department and
Ms. Barbara Ekwall, team leader of the right to food, launched the
Right to Food Methodological Toolbox: a practical publication containing six volumes covering a wide range of topics such as assessment, legislation, education, budgeting and monitoring in order to implement the right to adequate food at national level. During his intervention, the Director General stressed the important role of the right to food as an essential means to overcome the current food crisis and said that even if it represents a big challenge, the implementation of the right to food at national level was possible in the long term. In that sense, the Toolbox provides the operational assistance that all countries and stakeholders need in order to know HOW this major goal can be achieved.

from Right to Food, 23 - 10 - 2009

“Toolbox” to aid in promoting right to food
Five-volume set provides governments and civil society with "how-to" guidelines

23 October 2009, Rome - FAO has published a "methodological toolbox" on the right to food, designed to provide countries, institutions civil society and other stakeholders with a series of effective instruments they can use to assert the right to adequate food as a basic human right.

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