On the occasion of World Food Day and marking the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Right to Food Guidelines, FIAN International affirms its commitment to fight for systemic change in food systems.
Ahead of the World Food Forum hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FIAN International and partners call out a bogus UN corporate accountability initiative, which simply consolidates creeping corporate control over global food governance.
Two mega construction projects in Benin have displaced community members in the southern district of Ouidah. The State of Benin must ensure that women’s rights are protected from forced eviction.
Local chiefs in the Dedza District of Malawi have been linked to economic, social and cultural rights violations. Malawi must comply with its international human rights obligations and ensure that communities with customary land rights are granted full ownership of their land.
The Collaborative Action and Learning for Local Rights-Based Sustainable Food Systems project maps competences and experiences of local governments in Europe in fostering a transition towards human rights-based food systems. It also examines the role played by local communities and spaces of public participation.
This year’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World prioritizes “innovative” private funding solutions, without properly addressing the structural causes of extreme inequalities related to the global financial architecture and dominance of finance capital over the economy.
Ahead of the adoption of the China Universal Periodic Review report by the UN Human Rights Council this week, FIAN International joins civil society groups from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Pakistan calling on the Chinese government to immediately cease overseas mining and power plant activities outside its borders.
This week each national section of FIAN International responds to the panorama of violations to the right to food, the climate crisis and the dismantling of the human rights system, sharing experiences of tackling the food crisis and generating solutions for food sovereignty and autonomy.
Carbon markets have become one of the preferred responses to climate change and are increasingly promoted in agriculture. A new report exposes how a carbon trading project for peasant farmers in Colombia with massive data extraction jeopardizes their control over their own farms. It calls for regulatory measures to safeguard the human rights of peasants and rural communities in carbon markets and for alternative approaches promoting sustainable and just food systems.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UN’s Right to Food Guidelines, the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition calls for their immediate and comprehensive implementation, with due consideration and application of advances of the normative and legal framework on the human right to adequate food and nutrition made since their adoption in 2004.