The latest edition of the annual Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH examines the causes, impacts and responses to the food, climate and ecological crises.
It challenges false, for-profit solutions and presents alternatives anchored in the human right to adequate food and nutrution, eco-social justice, agrecology and food sovereignty.
Published by the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition, The Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH argues that industrial food systems have failed to meet the nutritional needs of the planet’s population. Extractivism, commodification and financialization of nature have exacerbated exploitation, dispossession and violent evictions. The increasing control of natural resources by a small number of powerful corporations, individuals and states is also fuelling gender-based violence, intersecting forms of discrimination and mounting inequality.
The report proposes an alternative way forwared - one based on people’s struggles against corporate capture, greenwashing and neocolonial practices – that promotes the right to food, enhances the human rights of peasants and other people in rural areas, and guarantees food sovereignty for all.
The report is divided into four sections examining:
- international developments
- food and the triple ecological crises of climate, biodeversity loss and pollution
- green colonialism and decarbonization
- grassroots struggles and solutions and solutions to the climate and food crises
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The Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition is comprised of organizations and social movements from around the world. The editorial board of the annual The Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH includes ISS alumna and visitng fellow, C. Sathyamala and alumna Donna Andrews.
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