The report, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food highlights the impact of the choices to be made on the right to food, placing them in the framework of States’ obligations domestically and internationally. The author suggests why a human rights framework should be adopted in order both to identify the measures needed to respond to the new situation created by the surge in prices and to guide their implementation. Listing both the risks and the opportunities of the current situation, the more...

'WHO published Terrorist Threats to Food, which was intended primarily for policy-makers in national governments with responsibilities for ensuring food safety, and was designed to assist them in incorporating considerations of food terrorism into existing food safety systems. The document received favourable comments from governments, the food industry and consumers and has been one of the most requested WHO documents in the field of food safety.'

'Guidelines for Strengthening National Food Control Systems was prepared to enable national authorities, particularly in developing countries, to improve their food control systems.These Guidelines provide information for government agencies to assist in the development of national food control systems and to promote effective collaboration between all sectors involved in the management and control of food safety and quality.'

For several decades following 1947, the modern large dam in India presented itself as a political conundrum, often voiced in strange, contradictory tones. In an oft-quoted speech in July 1954 Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister (1947–64), likened the large dam to a “modern temple.” Later, in a less remembered speech before a gathering of engineers and technocrats in 1958, Nehru, as if in contrition, bemoaned the quest for big dams as a “disease of gigantism.” Nehru’s con more...

This Global Policy Forum report critically reviews the global food aid system. Author Katarina Wahlberg argues that food aid donors fall short in prioritizing the needs of the poor and hungry. Instead, donor countries use food aid to promote their own national strategic and commercial interests. Such food aid not only fails to reduce hunger, it can also harm long-term food security in recipient countries.

This report comes out of ongoing IFPRI research and activities conducted as part of the 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment initiative, which aims to generate information to eradicate hunger, prevent poverty, and protect the environment.

'This paper examines evidence on the links between social protection and agricultural growth in Bangladesh by synthesizing existing impact evaluations from four programs in the country.'
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‘Almost two-thirds of people - 60% - in 26 countries say higher food and energy prices this year have affected them 'a great deal', a BBC report has found.The BBC World Service global study said that while all nations had felt the burden of the higher costs, the problem was most acute in poorer countries.’

’Food is a basic human right, yet around 800 million people in the world still go hungry every day. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) states that hunger is ‘the most critical manifestation of poverty’, designating ‘fight hunger to reduce poverty’ the theme of this year’s World Food Day. Feeding The World reports.’

'Having adequate food is a right and not just a necessity, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said.CHR chairman Leila de Lima said that one's right to food was among the numerous basic human rights listed in the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of the United Nations overlooked or violated by the government.'