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    Fifteen Years Implementing the Right to Food Guidelines: Reviewing Progress to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
    Fifteen Years Implementing the Right to Food Guidelines: Reviewing Progress to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
    Fifteen Years Implementing the Right to Food Guidelines: Reviewing Progress to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
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    Fifteen Years Implementing the Right to Food Guidelines: Reviewing Progress to Achieve the 2030 Agenda

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    Since the adoption of the Right to Food Guidelines, FAO and its partners have produced a wealth of tools, strengthened capacity, and facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues worldwide.

    But the goal of realizing the right to food of everyone is not accomplished yet- over 820 million people are currently suffering from chronic hunger.

    This fifteen-Year Retrospective on the Right to Food Guidelines helps us look back and understand what has worked and why, where the bottlenecks lie, and how governments and their partners can be most effective in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Release dateOct 28, 2019
    ISBN9789251318607
    Fifteen Years Implementing the Right to Food Guidelines: Reviewing Progress to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
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    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

    An intergovernmental organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. Its employees come from various cultural backgrounds and are experts in the multiple fields of activity FAO engages in. FAO’s staff capacity allows it to support improved governance inter alia, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support as a resource to country and regional level FAO offices. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is present in over 130 countries.Founded in 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO provides a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. The Organization publishes authoritative publications on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition.

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      Contents

      Foreword

      Acknowledgements

      Acronyms

      Introduction

      Section 1

      A brief introduction to the Right to Food Guidelines and the right to food as a human right

      Section 2

      Implementing the Right to Food Guidelines: good practices and lessons learned

      Legislative developments

      Policy developments

      Institucional developments

      Section 3

      Challenges to address as we reach 2030

      Pressing challenges and the Right to Food Guidelines

      Addressing the challenges and synergies: from the Right to Food Guidelines to the SDGs

      Takeaways with an eye on the future

      Notes

      Boxes

      1. The South–South Human Rights Forum

      2. International events, campaigns and declarations

      3. Nepal – An enabling environment for the realization of the right to food across the board

      4. Indigenous Peoples and the progressive realization of the right to adequate food

      5. Collective action to advance the right to adequate food

      6. The Plurinational State of Bolivia – Institutions mandated to the promotion and protection of the right to food

      7. Milan Urban Food Policy Pact

      8. Sierra Leone – Creating community-based dispute resolution mechanisms for mediation and resolution of food security and right to food challenges

      9. The World Banana Forum

      10. International measures, actions and commitments

      Foreword

      The Right to Food Guidelines anticipated the urgency to address today’s most pressing global challenges.

      Fifteen years have passed since the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security (Right to Food Guidelines) by the 127th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Council in November 2004. Fifteen years implementing the Right to Food Guidelines is aimed at communicating and sharing the experiences over the past 15 years, on how the progressive realization of the right to adequate food has acted as a game-changer in many countries.

      With the aim to provide practical guidance to States in their efforts to achieve the goals of the 1999 World Food Summit Plan of Action, the Right to Food Guidelines represented the first attempt by governments to interpret an economic, social and cultural right and recommend actions to be undertaken for its realization.

      Since the turn of the century, significant progress has been made at different levels to respect, protect and fulfil the right to food through the actions of a wide range of stakeholders. Globally, the starting point was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which was subsequently developed into legally binding agreements such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1966. Since then, additional international legal guarantees have been afforded to specific groups, such as women, children and persons living with disabilities. Nevertheless, issues of marginalization, historical exclusion, inequality and vulnerability are still hampering the enjoyment of this right across the board.

      Unfortunately, the latest State of the World Food Security in the World (SOFI) 2019 presents us with an increased number of people who suffer from hunger. Currently, more than

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