Dialogue on the Justiciability of the Right to Adequate Food brings together more than 200 voices in Cali, Colombia
On 1 and 2 October 2025, more than 200 people participated in a dialogue that took place at the Faculty of Law of the University Santiago of Cali, entitled “Justiciability and Defense of the Human Right to Adequate Food: a Regional Dialogue from the Communities and the Academia”.
The dialogue was held within the framework of the project “Legislating for the right to adequate food”, implemented by FAO’s Development Law Service (LEGN). with the support of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity of the Federal Republic of Germany (BMLEH). It was organized by FAO, in collaboration with BMLEH, the University Santiago of Cali and the Observatory on the Right to Food in Latin America and the Caribbean (ODA-ALC), also with support from the Latin America and the Caribbean without Hunger Initiative (IALCSH), the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID).
This dialogue brought together 38 panelists and moderators, including government authorities, members of the judiciary, FAO officials, academics, community and NGO leaders, and young researchers from six universities in Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia.
Key sessions explored various dimensions of the justiciability of the right to food, such as the constitutional and legal recognition of this human right; regional and national jurisprudence; litigation and collective activism; new voices on the right to adequate food; the protection of this right in the context of climate change and agrarian justice; and the experience of research groups on justiciability.
The dialogue started with a live-streamed webinar that reached people from all across the region. (Watch the recording here).
This event gave new impetus to advancing the justiciability of the right to adequate food in Latin America and the Caribbean. LEGN is hopeful that such an event will foster further collaboration among research groups and inspire the replication of similar experiences in other universities.
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