New Report Calls for More Democratic Food Systems

Launch of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 – Ten Years of the Right to Food Guidelines: Gains, Concerns and Struggles

Rome, Utrecht, Heidelberg, Geneva, Berlin, 8 October 2014 – Food security and human rights remain deeply threatened by concentration of land ownership, corporate domination of food systems and policy incoherence, reports the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2014, officially launched today with the participation of the new UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food, Dr. Hilal Elver, at the FAO in Rome.

“As we celebrate the progress made over the past decade, it is important to keep in mind that we will have to work even harder to realize the right to food in order that hunger and malnutrition no longer afflict humanity”, Dr. Elver cautioned on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of the Follow the Watch on Facebook