Food & Nutrition

Advancing the right to health: the vital role of law. New report

Sugar tax in Mexico. Salt limits in South Africa. Plain packaging in Australia. National health insurance in Ghana. Mandatory motorcycle helmets in Vietnam. Health care in the...

Calling on the World Bank to end the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA)

Source: Oakland Institute Since 2013, the World Bank has been rolling out the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA), an index demanded by the G8 to score countries on how...

Keeping Seeds in Peoples’ Hands. Launch of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2016

Launched at FAO Headquarters, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2016 warns seeds and biodiversity are under threat as a result of the increasing corporate capture and the...

Uncapping the truth: The Mexican sugar sweetened beverage tax works!

Nutritional Health Alliance, Mexico | The Food and Beverage Industry is vigorously opposing Mexico's tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and is spreading misinformation about its...

EU parliament slams aid scheme that uses big agribusiness to 'feed Africa'

Press Release, Global Justice Now, 7 June 2016 | On Tuesday lunchtime the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to accept a highly critical report made by the EU Development...

SID workshop on youth and agricultural transformation in the EAC

SID workshop on youth and agricultural transformation in the EAC: Challenges and opportunities for policy change In March 2015, through the Youth Livelihoods, Employment and...

Dakar declaration 2016 - Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition

Dakar declaration of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition 2016 The members and friends of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (GNRtFN) -...

Civil society expresses shock at draft agriculture text (MC10)

Published in SUNS #8159 dated 18 December 2015 Nairobi, 17 Dec (Ranja Sengupta) - Civil society representatives present at the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) have expressed...

Controversial G8 agriculture initiative accused of ‘land grabs’ debated in parliamentary hearing in Brussels

A European Parliament hearing [has taken place on December 1st, 2015] to scrutinise the controversial aid initiative, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. The New...

Civil society deeply concerned about multi-stakeholder language at the CFS42

The  42nd session of the Commtte on Food Security (CFS42) took place from 12 to 15 October at the FAO headquarters, in Rome.  The CFS is an intergovernmental body that meets every...

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