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 Increasing Imperative for Resilient Food Systems in Times of Crisis: What Can Donors Do?

Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (2022) | On the heels of the pandemic, our collective attention is now focused on the skyrocketing food prices and the conflict in Ukraine. While emergency measures are necessary to address short-term consequences, these current crises further cement the need for long-term investments into resilient food systems, in order to combat and avoid such crises in the future. Presentations by Keynote Speaker Jennifer Clapp and panelists Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Satu Santala, Martin Bwalya, Leonard Mizzi, and Jim Woodhill. Moderated by Henry Bonsu.

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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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Monitoring food security in countries with conflict situations

A joint FAO/WFP update for the UN Security Council (Jan 2020) | This report covers five countries (Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan) and two regions (the Lake Chad Basin and central Sahel) that are currently experiencing protracted conflict and insecurity and in which, according to latest figures, almost 30 million people need urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance.

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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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SOFI 2021: Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (2021) | In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets, which provide an important link between the food security and nutrition indicators and the analysis […]

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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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