FFAO's Strategic Framework 2000-2015 stipulates that the Organization is expected to take fully into account "progress made in further developing a rights-based approach to food security" in carrying out its mission "helping to build a food-secure world for present and future generations."

When the Council adopted the Voluntary Guidelines in November 2004, it also called for adequate follow up to the Guidelines through mainstreaming and the preparation of information, communication and training material. The right to food was later defined in programming documentation as one of nine FAO priorities.

  The Right to Food Unit established for these purposes constitutes a relatively large group of project staff with different backgrounds, including a Human Rights Adviser, a Right to Food Capacity Adviser, an Economist and a Legal Officer.

   The Right to Food Unit supports the implementation of the human right to adequate food, using FAO’s Right to Food Guidelines. It develops methods and instruments to assist stakeholders in the implementation of the right to food and information and training materials to raise awareness and understanding by rights holders, duty bearers, civil society and the general public and supports initial national implementation of the right to food at national level.

  The Right to Food Unit also works towards integrating the right to food into FAO's work. We have a vision of realizing the human right to adequate food, through it being respected, protected and fulfilled everywhere.