Right To Food Guidelines

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Right To Food Guidelines

• New demands for academia in research and
  capacity-development

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Overview

• Right to Food Milestones
• Content of Right to Food Guidelines
• Implementing the Guidelines
• Research
• Capacity Development

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Freedom from Want

• Four Freedoms Speech
• Foundations of UN
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Article 25
• Adequate Standard of Living
• Including Food
• Possible Customary International Law
• Links to UN Charter

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Treaties

• Economic, Social Cultural
• Civil Political
• Geneva Conventions, ICC Statute
• Genocide Convention
• Refugee Convention
• Womens Rights - CEDAW
• Rights of the Child

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Implementation Interpretation

• Asbjorn Eide, Sub-Commission (1980s)
• World Food Summit (1996)
• NGO Code of Conduct (1997)
• High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Special Rapporteur (2000)
• World Food Summit Five Years Later (2002)

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World Food Summit five years later (June 2002)

• Reaffirmed right of everyone to adequate food and
  fundamental right to be free from hunger
• Asked FAO to establish an Intergovernmental
  Working Group to elaborate Voluntary Guidelines

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IGWG Mandate

• 2 years
• Participation of Stakeholders
• Voluntary
• Progressive Realization of the Right
• Context of National Food Security

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Food Security

• exists when
• all people,
• at all times,
• have physical and economic access
• to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
• to meet their dietary needs and
• food preferences
• for an active and healthy life.
• (World Food Summit 1996, Plan of Action)

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The Right to Adequate Food

• Human Right to Food Security
• Obligations
• Conduct Results
• Negative Positive
• Commission Omission
• Levels
• Respect
• Protect
• Fulfil
• Facilitate
• Provide
• (General Comment 12 CESCR)

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Right to Food Guidelines

• Voluntary
• Addressed to All States
• Practical Tool
• Principles
• Universality
• Non-Discrimination
• Interdependence
• Good Governance
• Rule of Law

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Supporting FAO Action

• Information papers
• Case studies (Brazil, Canada, India, South
  Africa, Uganda)
• Projects (Brazil, Honduras, Sierra Leone)

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Voluntary Guidelines Contents

• Section I Preface and Introduction
• Section II Enabling Environment, Assistance and
  Accountability
• Section III International Measures, Actions and
  Commitments

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Section II Guidelines 1 - 19

• 1 Democracy, Good Governance, Human Rights and
  the Rule Of Law
• 2 Economic Development Policies
• 3 Strategies
• 4 Market Systems
• 5 Institutions
• 6 Stakeholders
• 7 Legal Framework
• 8 Access to Resources and Assets
• 9 Food Safety and Consumer Protection
• 10 Nutrition

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Guidelines 1 - 19 Continued

• 11 Education and Awareness Raising
• 12 National Financial Resources
• 13 Support for Vulnerable Groups
• 14 Safety Nets
• 15 International Food Aid
• 16 Natural and Human-Made Disasters
• 17 Monitoring, Indicators and Benchmarks
• 18 National Human Rights Institutions
• 19 International Dimension

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Research and Development Needs

• Implementing Specific Guidelines
• Entirety of Guidelines Interdisciplinary
  Exercises
• Monitoring Human Rights
• Links with Other Human Rights

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Guideline 3 Strategies

• Right to food strategy
• Poverty Reduction Strategies
• Assessment of existing legislation, policies and
  strategies
• Targets and time frames
• Production and distribution of food
• Institutional Responsibilities
• Monitoring

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Areas of Research and Development

• How to formulate Right to Food Strategy
• How to re-focus PRSPs
• How to strengthen institutional capacity
• How to train duty-bearers

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Guideline 7 Legal Framework

• Domestic legal and constitutional provisions
• Direct incorporation of right to food
• Remedies
• Public information
• Women head of household

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Areas of Research

• Possible Framework Law
• Defining Institutional Responsibilities
• Defining Individual Rights and Entitlements

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Guideline 17 Monitoring, Indicators and
Benchmarks

• Measuring Realization of Rights
• Right to Food Impact Assessment
• Process, Impact and Outcome Indicators
• Participatory Information Management

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Areas of Research

• What is different in measuring the right to food
  from measuring food security?
• What information is relevant to rights holders?
• What information do duty bearers need to do their
  work?
• How should right to food information be
  communicated?

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More Information

• www.fao.org
• www.fao.org/righttofood
• www.fao.org/legal/

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Thank you