Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH - People's Ecological Alternatives to Corporate Greenwashing

“Throughout 2023, there has been a noticeable lack of decisive action in addressing the ongoing systemic food crises,” the authors of the latest edition of the annual Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH state. The report, entitled People's Ecological Alternatives to Corporate Greenwashing, was published by the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition in June 2024.

It examines the causes, impacts and responses to the food, climate and ecological crises. It challenges false, for-profit solutions and presents alternatives anchored in the human right to adequate food and nutrition, eco-social justice, agroecology and food sovereignty.

The report proposes a different way forward based on grassroots struggles against corporate capture, greenwashing and neocolonial practices. It promotes the right to food and adequate nutrition, the human rights of peasants and other people in rural areas, and food sovereignty for all.

It is divided into four sections examining international developments, food and the triple ecological crises, green colonialism and decarbonisation, and grassroots struggles and solutions to the climate and food crises.

“With this publication, we aim to provide a human rights perspective on the right to food that looks beyond the numbers and sheds light on the structural causes of hunger and malnutrition, as well as its link to other human-caused crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and overall dismantling of the human rights system,” the authors write. The publication covers the period from January to December 2023.

(Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition/ile)

Read more and download the report on the website of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition