The Right to Adequate Food in 2024 – A Concrete Utopia
At a side event to the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) 41st session on Monday, 13 October, 2014, civil society organizations offered their perspective and views on the achievements and future challenges to the right to food, with the intention to complement the debate in the official CFS Plenary.
The objective of the civil society organizations’ work on the anniversary is to generate a higher level of commitment of governments, the UN, private sector and civil society to advance the implementation of the right to adequate food, particularly by strengthening human rights accountability and coherence on all levels of policies and practices that affect food security and nutrition.
For this purpose, civil society organizations have decided to seize the opportunity of this political momentum to present a critical assessment of where we are now with the RtAF struggle and to contribute to the dialogue with governments and UN on progress achieved so far.
CSOs presented experiences in the implementation of the right to food building on national case studies, with a view to make recommendations to the national, regional and global level. Based on their varied experiences, CSOs presented a vision for the future of the right to food.