G8 New Alliance for food security and nutrition in Africa: A critical analysis from a human rights perspective
A policy paper published by FIAN International questions the legitimate role of the G8 in regards to food security and nutrition.
The policy paper centres in the fact that the G8 initiative ignores general human rights principles and contradicts a human rights-based framework in key issues relevant for those most affected by hunger and malnutrition: small-scale food producers. Moreover, FIAN criticizes the G8 initiative as bluntly equating the opening of agriculture and food markets to foreign investors with combating hunger and malnutrition.
By highlighting the G8 initiative also ignores general human rights principles, like effective participation, and lacks human rights risk analyses and reference to adequate accountability mechanisms,
FIAN's policy paper directly contrasts policy actions of the G8 initiative in four key areas: seeds, land, social protection/income, and nutrition with a human rights framework.
The paper concludes by reiterating the demand that G8 countries implement the decisions by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), such as the
Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests, and do not sideline and weaken the CFS as the foremost legitimate and democratic multilateral governing body on food security and nutrition with such an initiative.
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