GDAE's "The Right to Food: A Weapon Against Global Hunger"
The Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts hosted Olivier de Schutter for a talk about "the right to food." Schutter is the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on the right food and has been instrumental in promoting this idea as a powerful new tool in the effort to end global hunger.
"The right to food is increasingly being referred to in global discussions on food security...it's a human right" #Right2Food
The World Food Summit of 1996 helped governments understand how to use the right to food #Right2Food http://pic.twitter.com/Uh1ZSP4Q- #Right2Food would not have been possible without economist Amartya Sen, who forced us to revise understanding of hunger as a technical issue
- Legal definition of #Right2Food involves the "four A's": Availability, accessibility, adequacy, absorption
- Gov'ts have the obligation to adopt policies that progressively realize the #Right2Food and assure quantity and quality of food
- National #Right2Food strategies should: facilitate coordination, promote participation, gain gov't support, facilitate long-term objectives
- Brazil and Guatemala encouraged other Latin American countries to adopt framework strategies toward the #Right2Food
- We need to organize farmers to be a political constituency that matters...as valid participants in the shaping of public policy #Right2Food
