Rights based approach to food and nutrition security

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21 Jan 2013
Unit: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation
Location: The Netherlands, Wageningen
Organisation: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation

 21 Jan - 01 Feb 2013 - Centre for Development Innovation. 


Renewed commitment to the human right to have access to productive resources to produce and acquire your daily food.
Every man, woman and child has the right to adequate food. Adequate food means enough food in quantity and quality, safe and culturally acceptable. Yet, this fundamental human right is denied to millions of people who remain hungry every day. A rights based approach is a different way to address food and nutrition insecurity. It emphasises the rights of human beings to food and it obligates governments to create adequate pre-conditions to feed oneself as well as the priority for politicians to protect directly the poor and hungry. Ultimately, human rights including the right to food is about empowerment and accountability.
Globally the need to realize the right to food has been recognized, resulting in the
adoption by the FAO Council of the ‘Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realisation of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security’, commonly referred to as the Voluntary Guidelines. These guidelines offer countries the theoretical background to realize the right to food in their countries. In this course, you will be trained in the different aspects of the Right to Food (using parts of the Guidelines) and in developing an intervention addressing food and nutrition insecurity using a right based approach. >> read more
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