Consultation
Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investments
Investing responsibly in agriculture is essential for reducing poverty, creating decent employment opportunities, enhancing food security and nutrition, and ensuring environmental sustainability. However, to achieve this, investments need to be responsible and specifically directed towards the achievement of benefits, while aiming at avoiding negative consequences. To address these needs, the CFS has launched a consultative process to develop principles for responsible agricultural investments (CFS-RAI). We welcome your feedback on the proposed set of principles.
Rights-based approaches to Food Security in Protracted Crises
Dear Members,
We would like to invite you to the online discussion Rights-based approaches to Food Security in Protracted Crises, launched today by the Community of Practice on Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises.
There are certainly many challenges to the successful application of rights based approaches in protracted crises settings such as weak central governments or having to deal with non-state actors. With this discussion we would like you to help us further explore these challenges and how they can be overcome.
The discussion will be facilitated by Joseph Schechla from Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights Network, Egypt and by Mauricio Rosales from the Right to Food team of FAO, Italy.
It is the third of a series of four, which form part of the process to elaborate an Agenda for Action to address food insecurity in protracted crises. The inputs received through these discussions will inform and shape the elaboration of an Agenda for Action, which will be considered by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2014.
Please read the full topic below and join the discussion on the web page. The topic is also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish and we accept comments in any of these languages. This discussion will be open until 12 November 2013.
We look forward to hearing from you!
FSN Forum Team
Reports and briefs
Final study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on rural women and the right to food
The present study examines the right to food of rural women by underlining the international legal framework applicable to rural women, analysing the patterns of discrimination harming them, proposing strategies and policies for their legal protection and emphasizing good practices. The study has a...
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New Right to Food website now online!
The new Right to Food website has been launched today on Human Rights Day, 10 December.
In addition to a new design, improved functionalities and user friendly navigation, this website also displays the diverse work of the Right to Food in FAO. The Team’s work at global, national, sub-national and regional level is divided into both Projects and according to activities in the Our Work section making it easier for users to find the information needed. A strong feature of the website is the Publications section, where you will find information on all aspects related to the human right to food – from principle to practice!
All content is available in English, French and Spanish. Click here to vist the page
Consultation
From economic growth to food security and better nutrition
Economic growth can be a powerful driver for increased food security when translated into agricultural growth. However, to reduce poverty and hunger, growth needs to reach the poor and the increased income needs to generate demand for the assets controlled by them. As not all countries are being equally successful in generating this inclusive growth, how can good governance and social protection help to translate economic growth into improved food security and nutrition for all?
Reports and briefs
The Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) Program: The Brazilian experience
The launching of the “Zero Hunger Project – a proposal for a food security policy for Brazil” in October 2001 by the then candidate for the presidency Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reflected the maturing of discussions and proposals on food security and fighting hunger, which became national priorities...
Reports and briefs
The Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition: A Right to Food Perspective
The right to food plays a crucial role in the context of the reformed Committee on World Food Security, as integral part of its vision, as strategic orientation of its work and as practical way to achieve the objective of a world without hunger and malnutrition. Related to the development of a...
Reports and briefs
The Right to Food and Access to Natural Resources
In the recent years, focus has grown on human rights arguments and the efforts to improve access to resources. Human rights language has been used to support resource-access claims, and rights-based approaches have been pursued as a means for empowerment. However, beyond enthusiastic appropriations...
Consultation
Social protection for food security: setting the track for the High Level Panel of Experts
On behalf of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) we aim at collecting feedback on the HLPE’s study on Social Protection in the context of Food and Nutrition Security and on how to decrease vulnerability through social and productive safety nets, assessing possible solutions and reviewing existing practices.
Consultation
Social Protection for Food Security: HLPE consultation on the V0 draft of the Report
Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. Although increasingly dominated by conditional and unconditional cash transfer programmes, the wide range of instruments that aim to alleviate poverty and manage livelihood risks often have direct, intended implications for food security.