Brazil: Impact of Agrofuels on Human Right to Food

An International Fact Finding Mission to Brazil from April 3-10, 2008, documented the impacts of monocultures for the production of agrofuels on the enjoyment of human rights

FIAN, International Organization for Human Rights, working with the Human Right to Adequate Food, with consultative status before the UN, along with the agencies of cooperation of the churches Misereor, Bread for the World and EED of Germany, ICCO of the Netherlands; HEKS of Switzerland, as well as a representative of the Organization of West Africa farmers – ROPPA and an academic of the University of Halifax in Canada, at the request of Brazilian civil society organizations, carried out an international fact finding mission to check in locus the impacts on the Human Right to Adequate Food of the expansion of monocultures for agroenergy in Brazil. From the 03rd to the 10th of April, the mission visited 3 states of Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul, Piaui and Sao Paulo.