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| The right to food means that
in order to effectively combat hunger and malnutrition, producing
more or increasing aid will not suffice. It is equally important
to ensure that those who are hungry or malnourished are identified,
that they are specifically targeted by support agricultural
and social schemes, and that no individual in need is left
out.
| 18.10.2009 |
The Great Land Grab
In a new report, the Oakland Institute sounds the alarm on the threat that land grabbing poses to food security and livelihoods.
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| 07.05.2009 |
“Land
Grabbing” by Foreign Investors in Developing
Countries: Risks and Opportunities - a new IFPRI
Policy Brief.
 One
of the lingering effects of the food price crisis
of 2007–08 on the world food system is the proliferating
acquisition of farmland in developing countries by
other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies.
Foreign investment can provide key resources for agriculture,
including development of needed infrastructure and
expansion of livelihood options for local people.
If large-scale land acquisitions cause land expropriation
or unsustainable use, however, foreign investments
in agricultural land can become politically unacceptable.
It is therefore in the long-run interest of investors,
host governments, and the local people involved to
ensure that these arrangements are properly negotiated,
practices are sustainable, and benefits are shared.
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| 06.04.2009 |
In the Interactive
Thematic Dialogue of the U.N. General Assembly
on the Global Food Crisis and the Right to Food, the
Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Olivier
De Schutter raises the following core questions:
1. How can States be supported in the design and
implementation of national strategies for the realization
of the right to food, including through the adoption
of framework laws ensuring accountability of governments
to those whose rights are violated ?
2. Which assessment can be made of different models
of agricultural development, as regards their impact
on the right to food ?
3. How can trade be redesigned in order to ensure
that it will serve development, as a condition for
the full realization of the right to food ?
4. How can the situation of agricultural workers be
improved, particularly as regards their right to a
living wage and social protection ?
5. Which incentives or regulations are needed to ensure
that transnational agri-food companies contribute
to the development of the countries they source their
supplies from, and to the realization of the right
to food?
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