Climate Change

Resources related to climate change and the right to food.

Right to Food and Nutrition Watch: Women’s Power in Food Struggles

Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (2019) | In the context of rising hunger and ecological collapse, women and all those who seek to reimagine food, environment and economies, face ever-increasing attacks. This report addresses key issues of power, and expose the structural violence that degrades both women and the environment. This report is the result of a collective reflection process driven by women. Here, authors call out on food and feminist movements, which are as diverse as their struggles and political backgrounds, to build alliances and join the discussion to advance the rights of women, including […]

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Global Report on Food Crises – 2021

Global Network against Food Crises (2021) | GRFC 2021 highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55 countries/territories, driven by persistent conflict, pre-existing and COVID-19-related economic shocks, and weather extremes. The number identified in the 2021 edition is the highest in the report’s five-year existence.

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Overcoming Ecological Crises: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Human Rights

Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (2020) | Our current economic and political system feeds on the exploitation of humans and nature to generate profits, which manifests most clearly in the perpetuation of inequalities, global warming and the rapid loss of biodiversity. This report examines the illusion of separation between human societies and the rest of nature. Authors in this issue invite us to join the dots and explore a new generation of human rights and environmental law that reimagines interrelatedness and how we can collectively shift ̧ the paradigm from separation to connection through an ongoing […]

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The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (2019) | This report presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture (BFA). It complements other global assessments prepared under the auspices of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which have focused on the state of genetic resources within particular sectors of food and agriculture. SoW-BFA addresses the sustainable use, development and conservation of BFA worldwide. BFA is taken to include the diversity of animals, plants and micro-organisms at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels that sustain structures, functions and processes in and around production systems […]

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Global Environment Outlook 6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People

United Nations Environment Programme (2019) | This report calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally Agreed Environment Goals, such as the Paris Agreement. The report takes a comprehensive look at food security and environment.  

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Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report

United Nations Environment Program (2019) | The first ever global assessment of environmental rule of law finds weak enforcement to be a global trend that is exacerbating environmental threats, despite prolific growth in environmental laws and agencies worldwide over the last four decades. In it, environmental rule of law is described as critical to human health and welfare, including food security.

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