The right to an adequate diet: the agriculture-food-health nexus 2012, para. 21
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- The discussion surrounding the contributions made by GAIN provides an illustration. One reason companies partner with GAIN is to reach the "bottom of the pyramid," i.e., potential customers who are too poor to constitute a solvent market in the short term. GAIN-supported initiatives, however, should not bar the emergence of sustainable and equitable solutions in which people are served by local producers. Some GAIN projects do build the capacity of local partners and can continue in the long term without external support. But any such interventions should include a clear exit strategy to empower communities to feed themselves. In this regard, donors should make their support to GAIN conditional upon such a requirement of subsidiarity and upon the adoption of a clear exit strategy. In particular, as noted in the proposal for a draft code of conduct for sustainable diets, "when ecosystems are able to support sustainable diets, nutrition programmes, policies and interventions supporting the use of supplements, RUTF [ready-to-use therapeutic foods], fortificants, and infant formulas are inappropriate and can lead to malnutrition, and ... the marketing of these food substitutes and related products can contribute to major public health problems".
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- All
- N.A.
- Année
- 2012
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/59, para. 21.
- Paragraph number
- 21
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