Launched at FAO Headquarters, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2016 warns seeds and biodiversity are under threat as a result of the increasing corporate capture and the states’ neglect. The first series of ‘The Struggle for the Right to Food and Nutrition’ looks into key concepts within the framework of food sovereignty, beyond the frontiers of food security. Launched this week, the People’s manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests will serve as a reference for affected communities to assert their rights. On the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2015, FIAN International published three analytical briefings. These are part of a series dedicated to feed into negotiations around the text for the future UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is annually published by Brot für die Welt, ICCO and FIAN International, in partnership with a number of other organisations. All editions are freely available in pdf below. In order to combat hunger and malnutrition, we need to ensure that the human right to food of vulnerable groups is protected and realised in a way that gives them control over their food and farming systems. There are real opportunities to do so through agroecological farming practices, in...
Read More... Hands off the Land is a European research, lobby and sensitizing project on the issues that surround land grabbing. It was launched in May 2011 and is carried out by the FIAN sections in Germany, The Netherlands, FIAN International, FIAN Austria, Transnational Institute (TNI), Forschungs und Dokumentations-zentrum...
Read More... The Right to Food Journal is an annual publication by FIAN International was formerly known as Right to Food Quarterly. Here you will find all publications of our ‘Speak Out and Act for the Right to Food and Land’ project. FIAN aims to raise awareness among students and a wider audience about the impact of land and water grabbing on the human right to food and related...
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Beyond Food Security, towards Food Sovereignty
People’s Manual on Land, Fisheries and Forests
Briefings on Peasants Rights
Right to Food and Nutrition Watch
Gaining Control over our Food Systems
Hands off the Land
FIAN Right to Food Journal
Speak Out
Keeping Seeds in Peoples’ Hands – Launch of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch
