Organiser's description (via Centre for Food Policy):
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food. The Right to Food is a fundamental human right that offers protection to all human beings to be free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition and to ensure a dignified life for all. Currently the right to food is explicitly and directly recognised in >23 countries. The Scottish Government’s Good Food Law introduces a right to food, but the position on this crucial topic across other UK nations is unclear. How the Right to Food has been used across countries will be explored using case studies from Brazil, India, South Africa, Colombia and Scotland. There is a growing recognition that the Right to Food cannot be separated from other rights, such as access to health care, wider social protection and education. A critique of whether supplemental nutrition programmes adhere to the principles of the Right to Food will be explored. Do they simply address the symptoms of food insecurity and act to distract attention from its root causes and the lived experiences of absolute poverty?
Speaker: Professor Martin Caraher, Emeritus professor of Food and Public Policy
