The Challenge

Identify, characterize, and address constraints that impede marginalized and vulnerable food system actors from participating in decisions to realizing their rights to food security, healthy diets, and improved nutrition outcomes, adapting to and mitigating climate change and other food system-related challenges, and fully contributing to and benefiting from their food systems.

The Goals

Use advocacy, build capacity, and develop accountability tools that better integrate human rights frameworks within food system policy and action to address ongoing constraints by strengthening the capacity of right-holders.

The Outcomes

  • Improved understanding and use of the UNDROP and VGFSN, VGGT, VGRTF and its food system relevant articles by duty bearers in ways that benefit rural and peri-urban food producers and affected populations of those countries through greater access to information.

  • Drafted and implemented country-specific UNDROP roadmaps and frameworks in collaboration with stakeholders.

  • Co-developed and integrated monitoring and accountability mechanisms incorporating human rights in food system programming, policies, guidelines, and national and international legislation.

  • Improved policy coherence at the national level between individual sectors/ministries and the international level within the global norm-setting processes related to food systems and the right to food.

Activities