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[Events and Updates]

Report: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World in 2023

FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO have recently published a report sharing the information on the global advancement of the SDGs target 2.1, ending hunger, and 2.2, ending all forms of ...

Last update 11 Sep 2023
One of the hand washing facilities installed by UN-Habitat in Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya April 14, 2020
[Databases]

African organisations and bodies

Declaration on food security and nutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic, 16 April 2020. African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) Press Release of the Special Rapporteur on ...

Last update 30 Nov 2020
[Events and Updates]

EXPO 2015: “Feeding the Planet?” Cycle of seminars and call for papers

In view of the Universal Exposition of Milan, which will take place from May 1st to October 31st 2015 and is devoted to the theme “Feeding the planet, Energy for life”, a group of civil ...

Last update 15 Jan 2014
A woman resident of the Kibati camp of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) carries a bag of food ration distributed by the World Food Programme in collaboration with the non-governmental organization, CARITAS.
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The effects of the production and the use of agrofuels on human rights: the right to food

When the interests for agrofuels widely prevail on food wants, taking off lands from food crops the right to food is affected and in many cases threatened. Especially in developing countries the ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
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Food sovereignty

The term food sovereignty was coined by the International Peasants Movement - Via Campesina, in 1996 to advocate a policy framework claiming the right of peoples to define their own food, ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
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The right to food

The right to food is defined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as:  "the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
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Biofuels v. agrofuels

To the term agrofuels corresponds the more usual biofuels. However, given the effects that they have on life, according to many experts, the prefix 'bio', which suggests an environment-friendly ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
[Publications]

Dai diritti fondamentali alla realizzazione della pace: il ruolo della risorsa alimentare

Remo Giunta (1987)

Articolo / Saggio

Last update 9 Nov 2010
[Publications]

The Human Rights to Water: Recent Positive Steps and the Way Ahead

Emanuele Fantini (2005)

Articolo / Saggio

Last update 7 Oct 2010
[Publications]

The Human Right to Food and Nutrition and the Story of 840 Million Court Cases

Irene Galtung (2004)

Articolo / Saggio

Last update 8 Nov 2010