PROJECTS

Agricultural trade and the right to food

The current hunger crisis makes it clearer than ever that global agricultural trade and the rules underlying it can have considerable – positive or negative – effects on the human right to food.

Although this general recognition has become virtually uncontested on an international level, opinions differ as to the political conclusions to be drawn.

Empirical case studies on the impact of trade policy on the right to food in selected farmers’ communities aim at exploring more closely the connection between trade and human rights, at enabling conclusions for the formulation of trade agreements, and at supporting the development of human rights instruments for the monitoring of trade policy.

Studies related:

Trade policies and hunger - The  impact of trade liberalisation of the Right to Food of rice farming communities in Ghana, Honduras and Indonesia

World agricultural trade and human rights - Case studies on violations of the right to food of small farmers

Case study on the right to food of tomato and poultry farmers in Ghana

Case study on the right to food of milk and honey farmers in Zambia

Case study on the right to food of Milk and Maize farmers in Uganda

See also African Smallholders in Focus