Consumer organizations represent the interests and concerns of consumers. They empower and increase consumers’ understanding of their rights, including the right to adequate food. Consumers have a key role in changing our agri-food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Michael Fakhri, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, underlined in this video message, delivered ahead of side event CFS 47, the linkages between environment, people´s rights and government.

During the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), panelists approached the topic of the right to food with a focus on the people currently hardest hit by COVID 19 from different perspectives.

Food is a human right, and it depends on plant health.

Food is a basic human right. Our challenge is to ensure the right to food for everyone, everywhere. Plants are part of the solution. They are critical for the ongoing access to sufficient, affordable, safe and nutritious food for us all to live active and healthy lives. Governments and stakeholders can take action to empower the most vulnerable and protect plant health.

This video offers a highlight of the Committee on World Food Security and its work promoting policy convergence and coherence on global food security and nutrition.

The starting point fod defining how responsible investment in agriculture and food systems can contribute to food security and nutrition is the recognition and respect for human rigts. To this end, it is necessary to improve the enabling environment and strengthen capacities to enhance responsible investments by and for all the stakeholders, while taking particular attention to the needs of vulnerable groups such as youth.