Launch of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2013
The sixth edition of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch "Alternatives and Resistance to Policies that Generate Hunger" was launched in Rome today
Rome, Berlin, Heidelberg, Utrecht, October 8th, 2013 – In a world that produces enough food for all, the sixth edition of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, that was launched in Rome today, identifies a number of policies that generate hunger and malnutrition instead of reducing them. In response, articles in the report urge that such policies and the actors who implement them, respect and incorporate the human right to adequate food when redesigning detrimental policies. The report further insists upon the need for inclusive and meaningful participation of people and communities in the development of those public policies which affect their lives.
Watch a video of the launch in RomeThe report stresses that a check of human rights coherence is particularly needed for global initiatives such as the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the Scaling-Up Nutrition initiative (SUN), the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and other Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in agriculture or nutrition. All of these initiatives include significant involvement of corporations as well as the attendant conflicts of interest based on commercial considerations that become inevitably entwined in the making of public policy.
The 2013 edition of the Watch addresses Alternatives and Resistance to Policies that Generate Hunger and details how civil society initiatives based on the respect of human rights, offer solutions consistent with sustainability, equality, and justice, as well as with concepts such as food sovereignty, agro-ecology, or peasants’ seeds.