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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...
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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.
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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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from Right to Food, 06-10-2009
Call from the Cordoba Group
The Cordoba Group calls for coherence and action on food security and climate change. Meeting in advance of a series of international high-level meetings to take place in the second half of 2009.
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from Right to Food, 09-09-2009
Mexico D.F. approves Law on Food Security and Nutrition for the Federal District
The new Law on Food Security and Nutrition, approved on the 17th of August by the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, is a milestone for the protection of the right to food. It is one of the first laws in the world implementing the right to food at the sub-national level and thus bringing the right to food protection closer to the citizens. Another very important achievement of the Law is that the right to food is recognized both, as a fundamental human right and as the main objective of this Law.
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from Right to Food, 28-05-2009
FAO's new publication on
"The Right to Food
and HIV/AIDS"
FAO’s Right to Food Unit is pleased to announce the publication of the Study on the Right to food in the context of HIV/AIDS by Arne Vandenbogaerde. As latest UN reports indicate little progress in the struggle against the epidemic, this paper aims to clarify the relevance of the right to food in combating HIV/AIDS.
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from Right to Food , 09-04-2009
Right to Food Forum Newsletter
The Right to Food Unit is pleased to share the Special Edition of the Right to Food Newsletter which principally contains the outcomes and lessons learned of the Forum held in Rome in October 2008.
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