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The Global Food Challenge: Towards a Human Right s Approach to Trade and Investment Policies
This is a synthesis of a conference held in Geneva in November 2008. It was called “The Global Food Challenge – Finding New Approaches to Trade and Investment that Support the Right to Food”.
The New Ecuadorian Constitution would Recognize Food Sovereignty as a means to Realize the Right to Adequate Food
Press Release by FIAN International, Sept 22, 2008.
The Cordoba Declaration on the Right to Food and the Governance of the Global Food and Agricultural Systems
Statement launched on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal declaration of Human Rights,10 December 2008 (8 pages). Multiple authors, under the auspices of CEHAP (Catedra de Estudios Sobre Hambre Y Pobreza/Chair for Studies into Hunger and Poverty) at the University of Cordoba (Spain).
The City that Ended Hunger
Six-page article by Frances Moore Lappe written for YES! Magazine's special Spring 2009 issue "Food for Everyone". The city that ended hunger is Belo Horizonte, the 4th largest city in Brazil. How'd they do it?? Read on...
La Via Campesina - Video
Short video featuring men and women from around the world speaking about multilateral agreements, the WTO, agricultural subsidies, unfair trade, globalization, hunger, corporate power, and the international movement for food sovereignty, and the right to food (both to eat and to produce) (7:25 min).
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Food Security: Vulnerability Despite Abundance
By Marc J. Cohen, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Published by the International Peace Academy as part of the Coping with Crisis Working Paper series, July 2007.
Unequal Harvest: Farmers' Voices on International Trade and the Right to Food
Report by Lauren Posner, Rights and Democracy, with the cooperation of McGill University School of Social Work, 2001 (27 pages).
The Human Right to Food in Malawi: Report of an International Fact-Finding Mission
This report and the fact-finding mission on which it is based, summarize some of the obstacles faced by communities in Malawi as they seek to apply sustainable solutions to the problem of persistent hunger in their country. By Droits et Democratie/Rights and Democracy and FIAN (Food First Information & Action Network) 2006. (65 pages).
Successes for Human Dignity: Fighting Hunger with Human Rights
Short report (16 pages). FIAN (Foodfirst Information and Action Network)
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY FOR AFRICA: A CHALLENGE AT FINGERTIPS (Nyeleni report)
A compilation of documents produced at the international food sovereignty gathering in Nyeleni, Mali in February 2007. Also reports on the outcomes of several conferences held at Nyeleni in Nov and Dec, 2007.
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