Using the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition to Promote and Defend the People’s Right to Adequate Food

The Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF), as adopted in its first version in October 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security, is intended to become the primary global reference for coordination and coherence in decision making on food, nutrition and agricultural issues. Many social movements and civil society organizations participated in the elaboration of this global intergovernmental consensus document and consider it a step forward in promoting a new model of governance on food, agriculture, and nutrition.

The process of implementing the GSF at the national level is crucial to its success. The goal is to ensure that key elements of the GSF can be used at the national level to advance important demands for policy changes towards the full realization of the human right to food and nutrition.

To this end, it is important that 'national ownership' be widely recognized and understood as 'democratic ownership.' States have a fundamental role to play in the application of the GSF at national and sub-national levels, but it is also important that social movements and civil society organizations contribute by making use of this important tool in their initiatives and struggles at local, national and international levels.

For this purpose, this new Manual documents some of the most important references and quotes in the GSF that both represent important achievements for social movements and civil society organizations, and also provide concrete and practical examples of how the document can be used by the self-same groups in their political struggles and advocacy efforts at local, national and international levels.

Published in October 2013

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