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The right to food, climate change, and global governance

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Oct 31 2023

14:00 - 16:00 CET

Theatre (Badia) and Zoom

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In this presentation, Michael Fakhri (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food) highlights the ambiguous and at times marginal role of the right to food in the respective climate change, biodiversity, and trade regimes, and related opportunities for global governance.
Food systems are central to climate change policy since they emit approximately one-third of greenhouse gases. But food security and climate change cannot only be dealt by the international climate change regime only since climate change, biodiversity and trade are interconnected as a matter of policy. As a matter of global governance, however, the issues remain separated. In this talk, I discuss how the right to food can be used to weave together the different issues and regimes. I highlight the ambiguous and at times marginal role of the right to food in the respective climate change, biodiversity, and trade regimes, and put forward why I nevertheless think that that the right to food provides opportunities for global governance. Drawing from my work as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, I provide a particular interpretation of the right to food as a tool given radical potential through social movements.

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