Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
The coronavirus is not just a health crisis. The world may be on the brink of a new food crisis. The effects of the pandemic are already being felt along food supply chains, and we will soon start to see its impacts on the agricultural sector both in the United…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
World Food Day is approaching fast, and as usual, it will be celebrated under the auspices of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and during the 46th Meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). The CFS meeting agenda is packed, but I’m very excited to be here because,…
Insight / Climate Justice / Right to Food and Agriculture
They say a “picture is worth a thousand words,” but this particular photo communicates even more. As someone who is passionate about photography and who studied photo-journalism, I was struck by this picture from a few weeks ago of Central American migrant farmworkers continuing to harvest produce as smoke…
Insight / Climate Justice / Right to Food and Agriculture / Women's Rights
Around the world, more and more people are experiencing hunger. Policies that are in place to address food security are clearly going in the wrong direction. These unjust realities were at the center of discussions I had and observed during my long marathon at the annual meeting of the United…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
October has arrived, which means that my colleagues and I are thinking about food even more than we usually do! This is the month of World Food Day, held every year on October 16 to celebrate food and its centrality in our life. Not only do we all need to…
Insight / Climate Justice / Emergency Response / Right to Food and Agriculture
Global hunger is on the rise. After a prolonged decline, the number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition in 2017 has reached an estimate of 821 million. Those who are most affected are smallholder farmers, fisherfolks, livestock herders and communities who depend on forests and other renewable natural resources…
Insight / Land Rights / Right to Food and Agriculture
It’s clear by now that the Trump administration is hostile to anything that has to do with human rights. It is determined to disrupt basic rights and dismantle any kind of multilateral governance, both in the name of “America First.” The hostility is especially clear when it comes to urgent…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture / Women's Rights
On June 8 and 9, seven of the world’s richest countries will gather in Canada for their annual summit. One of the major themes they will focus on is advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. The emphasis on gender equality and women’s empowerment was given priority to back up Canada’s…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
Just a few weeks ago, I joined more than 700 delegates at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology. After three intensive days of work and negotiations, we reached some encouraging conclusions. FAO Director José Graziano da Silva emphasized: It’s time to scale up the implementation of…
Insight / Climate Justice / Right to Food and Agriculture
In a world with a projected nine billion people to feed by 2050, where food production is constrained by worsening climate change, the idea of so-called Climate Smart Agriculture has been increasingly presented as the sustainable solution for expanding agricultural production. The concept of Climate Smart Agriculture was first developed by…
