from Right to Food , 09-04-2009

  Right to Food Forum Newsletter

This edition contains the outcomes and lessons learned from the Right to Food Forum held in Rome in October 2008. The main debates and discussions during the forum highlighted the importance of the right to food areas of action to improve the implementation at national level. This Newsletter also puts in evidence the progressive importance of the right to food and its increasing political support in different international scenarios such as the Policies against Hunger Conference hosted in Berlin in December 2008 and the more recent Madrid High Level Meeting of January 2009.

http://www.fao.org/righttofood/newsletter_pdf/newsletter5_web_en.pdf

You will find further information on the Forum, as well as audio-video reports and interviews, on the website which is dedicated to the event:

http://www.fao.org/righttofood/rtf_forum/index_en.html