The Cordoba Declaration

This Declaration presents a number of issues and recommendations that should be given attention in further work dealing with chronic hunger and the aggravation of the food crisis, as identified by a group of experts in the context of the Cordoba process. The present Declaration demonstrates how the right to food can tackle the structural causes of hunger and contribute to food security for all.

Contributing Authors: Enrique Alonso Garcia, Counsellor of State, Spain, Barbara Ekwall, Coordinator,  Right to Food Unit, FAO; Asbjørn Eide, Professor emeritus at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and former Special Rapporteur of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on the Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right, José Esquinas Alcazar, Professor and Director of the Chair of Studies on Hunger and Poverty (CEHAP), University of Cordoba,  Miguel A. Martin-López,  Chief of Department, Diputacion de Cordoba, Spain, Luis M. Martín-Martín, Professor of the University of Cordoba, Olivier de Schutter, Professor and Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food of the UN Human Rights Council, Flavio Valente, Secretary-General of FIAN, Carlos Villan Duran, President, Spanish Society for International Human Rights Law,   Jose Luis Vivero Pol,  FAO Officer (LAC Region)

Launched on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal declaration of Human Rights, 10 December 2008