Sunday, November 4, 2012

Human rights are the best weapon to combat hunger, report says

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A report by civil society groups, says it is impossible to address the causes of hunger, if the existing power relations remain intact

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are the most powerful tool to ensure efforts against hunger and malnutrition to address the structural causes and not just short-term strategies, groups civil society said in a report released Tuesday.

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global food and nutrition? - Strategies to regain control argues that it is impossible to fight against the causes of hunger, maintenance of existing power relations virgin

"The food and power are related. 'S almost impossible to find a person among the powerful in society and in the political world who do not have enough to eat," said Huguette Akplogan- Dossa, Regional Coordinator African Network on the Right to Food (ANoRF). "The trend is that the exclusion of economic and political decision to go along with the incidence of hunger and malnutrition".

The report is particularly concerned about the growing influence and control of agro-industrial and financial corporations on food and nutrition.

"Too often, food companies and nutrition use their weight and influence to increase their profit margins, and manipulate the rules to their interests and convenience, without considering the interests of small-scale food producers and the survival of their communities - not to mention the moral and legal right to food, "said Peter Prove, Executive Director of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance

The report indicates a fault in the approach to food security - access to safe and nutritious food. There is a "horizontal approach" favored by governments and international organizations such as Agra, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and is supported by the Gates Foundation, which focuses on technocratic approaches - better seeds and technology - to boost productivity and access to markets. This week, Agra organizing a forum in Arusha, Tanzania, in terms of agricultural development in Africa.

However, civil society groups regarding the fifth annual report on the right to food and nutrition focus on a rights-based approach. They say a heavily subsidized U.S. agricultural system and EU agricultural, with a concentration of power in a few giant cereal like ADM, Cargill and Bunge (the main beneficiaries of U.S. food aid business), this contributing to food insecurity in poor countries.
  • "Allow decisions in the hands of a small but powerful led to a centralized model of food supply, resulting in many cases, hunger, political violence or violation of obligations of the State in terms of basic human rights: to respect, protect and fulfill "the report says
report as negative corporate influence at work in the extension of the nutrition (Sun) initiative, which involves a level of $ 2.9 billion to encourage good nutritional practices to 6 $ 2 billion in the prevention and treatment of malnutrition with special foods. With the support of the UN system is supported by the gain, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. Gain partners include food giants such as PepsiCo, Kraft and Danone.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, while welcoming the progress at Sun, said the private sector try to use technical solutions to problems are essentially social. Mr. De Schutter called on countries involved in the development of nutrition to start regulating the marketing of infant formula and other breastmilk substitutes. He also noted the tension between a strategy to promote processed foods rich in nutrients, so that the systems become "medicalized" and promotes local and regional food systems, and a shift towards highly processed and less nutritious.



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