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Title | Date added | Template | Body | Legal status | Document type | Year | Document code | Original document | Paragraph text | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Conflict and the right to food | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2022 | A/HRC/52/40 | ||||||
Right to food for food system recovery and transformation | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2023 | A/78/202 | ||||||
Right to food and the COVID-19 pandemic | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2022 | A/77/177 | ||||||
Seeds, right to life and farmers’ rights | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2021 | A/HRC/49/43 | ||||||
Food systems and human rights | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2021 | A/76/237 | ||||||
Vision of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/HRC/46/33 | ||||||
The right to food in the context of international trade law and policy | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/75/219 | ||||||
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to the Human Rights Council on Critical perspective on food systems, food crises and the future of the right to food | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/HRC/43/44 | ||||||
Addendum - Mission to Azerbaijan: comments by the State on the report of the Special Rapporteur | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/HRC/43/44/ADD.3 | ||||||
Addendum - Mission to Zimbabwe: comments by the State on the report of the Special Rapporteur | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2020 | A/HRC/43/44/ADD.4 | ||||||
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to the United General Assembly on the Sustainable Development Goals | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2019 | A/74/164 | ||||||
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to the Human Rights Council on Fishery Workers | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2019 | A/HRC/40/56 | ||||||
Report to the General Assembly (Agricultural Workers and the Right to food) | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2018 | A/73/164 | ||||||
Report to the Human Rights Council (Right to food in the context of natural disasters) | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2018 | A/HRC/37/61 | ||||||
Addendum- Report on mission to Zambia | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2018 | A/HRC/37/61/Add.1 | ||||||
Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Dec 18, 2023 | Document | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | 2017 | A/72/188 | ||||||
Effects of pesticides on the right to food 2017, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Water contamination can be equally damaging. In Guatemala, for example, contamination of the Pasión River with the pesticide malathion, used on palm oil plantations, killed thousands of fish and affected 23 species of fish. This in turn deprived 12,000 people in 14 communities of their primary source of food and livelihood. |
| 2017 | |||||
Right to food and nutrition 2016, para. 99l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | [With a view to respecting, protecting and fulfilling the right to adequate food and nutrition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] All States incorporate the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes in its entirety into their legal systems and ensure adequate monitoring to ensure implementation; |
| 2016 | |||||
Right to food and nutrition 2016, para. 39 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | It is also critical to address malnutrition in all its forms as one issue to avoid policy fragmentation. In a recent study among 139 low- and middle-income countries for example, only 39.6 per cent had nutrition policies that addressed all forms of malnutrition, despite facing the effects of a "nutrition transition". |
| 2016 | |||||
Right to food and nutrition 2016, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Micronutrient deficiency describes a condition in which there is a lack or shortage of vitamins and minerals. Also referred to as "hidden hunger", it increases vulnerability to infection, birth defects and impaired development and can lead to premature death. For example, iron deficiency leads to anaemia, vitamin A deficiency weakens the immune system, and iodine deficiency interferes with brain development. |
| 2016 | |||||
Impact of climate change on the right to food 2015, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change further notes that in Central America, north-east Brazil and parts of the Andean region, increases in temperature and decreases in rainfall could lower productivity by 2030, aggravating food security among the poorest members of society. |
| 2015 | |||||
Fisheries and the right to food 2012, para. 40 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Second, States have an obligation to protect the right to food. They must ensure that enterprises or individuals do not deprive individuals of their access to adequate food. In the context of fisheries policies, this requires States, in particular, to protect the access rights of traditional fishing communities from industrial fishing and to control private actors that could affect the lands, territories and water on which these communities depend. |
| 2012 | |||||
Acroecology and the right to food 2011, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Farmer field schools have been shown to significantly reduce the amounts of pesticides use, as inputs are being replaced by knowledge. Large-scale studies from Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh recorded 35 to 92 per cent reduction in insecticide use in rice, and 34 to 66 per cent reduction in pesticide use, combined with 4 to 14 per cent better yields recorded in cotton production in China, India and Pakistan. Farmer field schools have also proven to be empowering by helping farmers to organize themselves better, and stimulating continued learning. The successful dissemination of the push-pull strategy (PPS) in East Africa, promoted by the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), is largely due to the demonstration of fields managed by model farmers, which attracts visits by other farmers during field days, and to partnerships with national research systems in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and other countries that have made research and development efforts to bring about the necessary adaptations such as choice of maize cultivars. The growth of the Campesino a Campesino movement in Cuba relied on technical advisers and coordinators supported by the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAB). Between 2001 and 2009, the number of "promotores" increased from 114 to 11,935, and a total of 121,000 workshops on agroecological practices were organized. |
| 2011 | |||||
Human rights criteria for making contract farming and other business models inclusive of small-scale farmers 2011, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Joint ventures, however, are not a panacea. A number of studies indicate that this model does not necessarily deliver better livelihoods for small-scale farmers or improve rural development and the realization of the right to food. The firm frequently controls all business decisions, and the joint venture might manipulate accounts to avoid paying out dividends. Questions arose in South Africa, for instance, after the beneficiaries of the post-1994 land restitution and redistribution programmes were encouraged to establish joint ventures with agribusinesses or to conclude leaseback agreements granting the former landowners use of their lands in conditions sometimes deemed unfair, and in Malaysia, after the Government, under the "Konsep Baru" (New Concept) scheme, encouraged production of palm oil on land under native customary rights in Sabah and Sarawak, in the form of a three-way joint venture among a private plantation company (60 per cent of the shares), a local community (30 per cent) and a parastatal agency (10 per cent) in which the local communities in effect relinquished all day-to-day decision-making power within the joint venture. |
| 2011 | |||||
Right to food and nutrition 2016, para. 77 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Some countries, such as Australia, the Republic of Korea and the United States, require restaurant chains to include information on energy and nutrient content or warning labels on sodium content. Clear standards are also needed on the use of nutrition and health claims to prevent consumers from being misled. In the United States, public demand for increased transparency has led to several attempts to implement mandatory-labelling schemes for genetically engineered foods. |
| 2016 | |||||
Effects of pesticides on the right to food 2017, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | While regulators are mostly concerned about health risks through pesticide residues, their effects on non-target organisms are hugely underestimated. For example, neonicotinoids, a commonly used class of systemic insecticides, are causing soil degradation and water pollution and endangering vital ecosystem services such as biological pest control. Designed to damage the central nervous system of target pests, they can also cause harm to beneficial invertebrates as well as to birds, butterflies and other wildlife. |
| 2017 | |||||
Women’s right and the right to food 2013, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Women are disproportionately represented in the "periphery" part of the workforce that coexists with the "core" segment of permanently employed farmworkers. This "periphery" segment of the workforce is made of unskilled workers, often without a formal contract of employment, and their work is often seasonal or temporary (or classified as such even when it is in fact continuous). The main reason why women are disproportionately represented in this segment is because they have fewer alternative options and are thus 'easier' to exploit. |
| 2013 | |||||
Fisheries and the right to food 2012, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Many fish are also rich in micronutrients, especially the smaller fish that are accessible to people living in poverty. The consumption of fish therefore not only helps to combat hunger, but also can address hidden hunger, or micronutrient deficiency. In addition, the seasonal availability of fish in rural communities is often different from crops, meaning that fish can help to reduce seasonal vulnerability. |
| 2012 | |||||
The transformative potential of the right to food 2014, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Improving support to smallholders is therefore essential in achieving local food security. The Special Rapporteur explored different tools to achieve this. At the heart of his proposals lies the question of how to ensure that the freedom of choice of small-scale food producers is truly respected. This requires pursuing two reform programmes in parallel. |
| 2014 | |||||
Effects of pesticides on the right to food 2017, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Neonicotinoids are accused of being responsible for “colony collapse disorder” of bees worldwide. For example, heavy use of these insecticides has been blamed for the 50 per cent decline over 25 years in honeybee populations in both the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This decline threatens the very basis of agriculture, given that wild bees and managed honeybees play the greatest role in pollinating crops. According to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), of some 100 crop species (which provide 90 per cent of global food), 71 per cent are pollinated by bees. The European Union, unlike the United States, restricted the use of certain neonicotinoids in 2013. |
| 2017 |