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39. Maintaining breast-feeding programmes, especially in countries experiencing
the HIV epidemic poses a major challenge. The Special Rapporteur intends to
coordinate with the United Nations Children’s Fund the World Health Organization
and other relevant stakeholders to help develop policies for strengthening specific
programmes for young children. She also encourages States to fully implement the
Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding, to position breastfeeding as the
norm and to respect and promote community-based food sovereignty approaches to
complementary feeding. The International Code of Marketing of Breast -milk
Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Assembly at its thirty-fourth session in
1981 as a minimum requirement to protect and promote appropriate infant and
young child feeding, should also be supplemented by further monitoring and
regulation to ensure that companies responsible for the production of baby food
follow similar quality control regulations for domestic use to those for export
products.
40. In contrast to undernutrition, developed and middle -income countries, as well
as the poorest countries of the world, are now faced with rising levels of chronic
diseases related to obesity, including heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.
Dietary changes associated with urbanization, such as increased consumption of
sugars and fats and declining levels of physical activity, are largely to blame.
Marketing campaigns employed by the food and beverage industry, targeting
children and adolescents, also bear much of the responsibility.
41. A right-to-food approach requires that States fulfil their obligation to ensure
that safe, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food is available; they
must also respect and protect consumers and promote good nutrition for all. The
Voluntary Guidelines, in particular Guidelines 9, on food safety and consumer
protection, and 10, on nutrition, can guide States in the establishment and
maintenance of effective food and nutrition policies, thereby increasing the
protection of the most vulnerable from unsafe food and inadequate diets, while
helping to combat overweight and obesity. The Convention on the Rights of the
Child indicates that access to adequate nutrition, including family support for
optimal feeding practices, is a right that should be supported for every child. The
Special Rapporteur believes that increased focus must be placed on mother and
child nutrition as the core of a healthy start in life, with the correlation between
infant and young child feeding and food security being treated as a priority in all
global food and nutrition security programmes and with formal recognition at the
international and national level, including in legal frameworks.
D.
Climate change and the right to food
42. Climate change, sustainable resource management and food security are now
widely considered among the most complex, interdependent and urgent global
policy challenges. With average temperatures predicted by the world scientific
community to rise by 2-4° C by the end of the century, the ability of entire regions
to maintain current levels of agricultural production is being threatened and many of
the adverse effects of climate change are now acutely felt. Individua ls and
communities already in vulnerable situations and at risk of discrimination due to
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