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24 Jan 2014

Author:
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter

[DOC] Final report [to UN Human Rights Council]: The transformative potential of the right to food

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...[The] food systems we have inherited from the twentieth century have failed. Of course, significant progress has been achieved in boosting agricultural production...But this has hardly reduced the number of hungry people, and the nutritional outcomes remain poor...The exclusive focus on increasing agricultural production has also had severe environmental impacts...The international community should find ways to...ensure that least-developed and net food-importing developing countries are better protected from the volatility of international market prices...States should take steps towards the establishment of a multilateral framework regulating the activities of commodity buyers, processors, and retailers in the global food supply chain...The international community should reach a consensus on agrofuels, based...on the need to avoid [their] negative impact...on the international price of staple food commodities...[and] the need to ensure that the production of agrofuels respects...human rights ...

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