Tag Archives: right to food

Three urgent calls for action to avoid food crisis for billions of people from different UN bodies  

Posted on 13 June 2022 by Geoff Tansey

I’ve been away but thought you would like to know about the following Last week in Rome the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Programme warned of a ‘looming widespread food crisis as hunger threatens stability in dozens … Continue reading →

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Trade Policy, The Right to Food & COVID-19 – and that’s just starters for Michael Fakhri, 4th Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Posted on 21 August 2020 by Geoff Tansey

Michael Fakhri was appointed as the UN’s 4th Rapporteur on the Right to Food in May 2020. In this conversation he talks candidly about his initial plans and the impact of COVID-19 on them. His first report, due in September … Continue reading →

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Young people facing #food insecurity in the UK have spoken. Was anybody listening? #Right2Food

Posted on 27 June 2019 by Geoff Tansey

It’s been a couple of months since the Children’s Future Food Inquiry launched its final report and children’s #Right2Food Charter in late April. So, has anything been done to address the issues raised? I invited Pandora Haydon, Communications Manager at … Continue reading →

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Food Justice, law, trade and food policy – making links, making changes.

Posted on 5 April 2019 by Geoff Tansey

What have lawyers got to do with Food Justice? And how do you get lawyers to interact with others tacking food insecurity and hunger. These were some of the issues a range of academics were discussing at a Symposium at … Continue reading →

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Taking responsibility for a #sustainable #food future?

Posted on 3 December 2018 by Geoff Tansey

Whose responsibility is it to ensure we have a sustainable food future? That was the theme of this year’s food conference at Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International affairs – at the end of November 2018. The 6 … Continue reading →

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Corporate charity undermines the human right to adequate #food and #nutrition

Posted on 29 May 2018 by Geoff Tansey

It’s nearly 4 years since I interviewed Prof Graham Riches about growing levels of hunger in rich countries in Europe and North America. Since then we’ve had the Hungry for Change report from the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty, … Continue reading →

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Getting the facts straight about #foodinsecurity

Posted on 3 October 2017 by Geoff Tansey

I just wrote this blog for the #EndHungerUK campaign, prior to its national conference on 17th  October in London In September 2015, the British Government committed itself to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition. It was then that the … Continue reading →

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#Gender, the right to #food and future priorities – a interview with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Posted on 19 August 2016 by Geoff Tansey

I met up with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food just before she took part in the fifth of a series of seminars on Ecofeminism, Food and Social Justice of the Food Research Collaboration at … Continue reading →

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A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind – Fabian Commission #foodandpoverty interim report

Posted on 17 March 2015 by Geoff Tansey

I’m on my way to Glasgow to chair a hearing of the Fabian Commision on Food and Poverty tonight. Yesterday, we released our interim report ‘A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind’. You can … Continue reading →

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Great start for the free, on-line Food Systems Academy launched Monday 27 October

Posted on 28 October 2014 by Geoff Tansey

I’m delighted that the new on-line, open education resource, the Food Systems Academy got off to a great start yesterday. Many thanks to all those who have already tweeted – @FoodSystemsAcad – and blogged about it. It provides a dozen key-note talks … Continue reading →

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