The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, today called for the world’s food systems to be radically and democratically redesigned to ensure the human right to adequate food and freedom from hunger. “The eradication of hunger and malnutrition is...achievable... However, it will not be enough to refine the logic of our food systems – it must instead be reversed,” Mr. De Schutter stressed during the presentation of his final report to the UN Human Rights Council...[Current] food systems are efficient only from the point of view of maximizing agribusiness profits..."Objectives such as supplying diverse, culturally-acceptable foods..., supporting smallholders, sustaining soil and water resources, and raising food security...must not be crowded out by the one-dimensional quest to produce more food.”...Mr. De Schutter highlighted...the promising efforts of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to bring together governments, civil society, international agencies and the private sector to collectively address...challenges...but warned that “the CFS remains the exception..."