Inequality

Resources related to food and inequality.

Work for a Brighter Future

ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work (2019) | This report calls on governments to commit to a set of measures in order to address the challenges caused by unprecedented transformational change in the world of work. Co-chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, the commission outlines a vision for a human-centred agenda that is based on investing in people’s capabilities, institutions of work and in decent and sustainable work.

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Protecting Children’s Right to a Healthy Food Environment

UNICEF (2019) | This advocacy brief explores how a child rights-based approach can and should be used to create and safeguard food environments that better enable healthy diets for children and contribute to the fulfilment of the fundamental right to healthy food and adequate nutrition, to which all children are entitled.

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The Indigenous World 2021

The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (2021) | Throughout 2020, Indigenous Peoples were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including with increased food insecurity. Indigenous Peoples proved their resilience by setting up their own networks and solutions, connecting communities to help transfer information and goods, and implementing traditional methods of protection to keep themselves safe from the virus and the intrusion of outsiders who potentially carried it. Nonetheless, as the pandemic spread, Indigenous Peoples continued to be persecuted, threatened, criminalised and killed in their efforts to defend their rights.

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Global Gender Gap Report 2021

World Economic Forum (2021) | Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, closing the global gender gap has increased by a generation from 99.5 years to 135.6 years. Although this report does not explicitly mention the right to food, it discusses malnutrition in the context of health and security.

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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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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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Leaving no one behind: Empowering Africa’s Rural Women for Zero Hunger and Shared Prosperity

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (2018) | This brochure presents the key findings and recommendations of the study entitled “the Regional Outlook on Gender and Agri-food Systems,” which was jointly conducted by the FAO and the African Union Commission. The brochure describes gender gaps in (i) access to and control over productive resources and opportunities, (ii) influence and collective capacity, and (iii) agricultural policies, investment and rural context. Additional analysis on progress and good practices across countries in Africa informed the brochure further to provide recommendations and next steps to move from commitments to collective actions.

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