Olivier De Schutter | United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Agroecology, a way to feed the world?

[June 22, 2010] BRUSSELS – On 21 and 22 June 2010, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, convened an international seminar aiming to take stock of the potential of agroecological approaches (agroforestry, mixed crop-livestock, biological pest control, intercropping, etc.) to meet global food security and save climate in 2050.
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Implementing the right to food: review of the progress

[14 May 2010] GENEVA – Two years after taking office as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to food, Prof. Olivier De Schutter presents a review of the progress made by a number of countries in implementing the human right to food at national level.

His review highlights concrete examples of initiatives recently taken by countries such as South Africa, Brazil, Mozambique, India or Nepal.
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Revising the CFA: Five proposals for the Dublin consultation

[10 April 2010] GENEVA – The Special Rapporteur has put forward five proposals to integrate the right to food framework and principles at the core of the revised Comprehensive Framework of Action (CFA), in order to make it consistent with international obligations as well as with statements made at the highest level, both by the UN Secretary general and by governments during the 2009 World Summit on Food Security.
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Set of minimum principles for land investments

[5 March 2010] GENEVA – The Special Rapporteur presents to the Human Rights Council an updated version of the minimum set of eleven human rights-based principles and measures that he proposed in June 2009 to ensure the right to food in the context of increasing numbers of large-scale transnational land investments.
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Coming Events

14 September: Conference "Agrobiodiversity and the right to food" (Brussels)

Olivier De Schutter will deliver a keynote speech on “The right to food: agro-biodiversity and property rights” before joining an expert panel discussion jointly organized by German development organizations Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and KfW on the topic of "Food Security, Food production and Agro-Biodiversity: Future Challenges in Cooperation". The event takes place on the 14th September 2010 at 18:30 at the Renaissance Hotel Brussels. The panel will include speakers from the European Commission and European Parliament. There will equally be two technical experts from the two hosting organizations, as well as Prof. Joachim von Braun, former director of IFPRI and current director of the Department of Economic and Technological Change at the Center of Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn.
 
24 September: UK Food Group Conference "Securing Future Food" (London)

Olivier De Schutter delivers the keynote address of the international conference on "Securing Future Food". The address will focus on agroecology and its relationship to the right to food, as well as the relationship between agroecological modes of farming and food systems.

More info: www.ukfg.org.uk
 
27 September: Annual Meeting of the German Council for Sustainable Development (Berlin)

Olivier De Schutter delivers the keynote speech at the annual meeting of the German Council for Sustainable Development, on the theme of human rights and sustainable development.

The German Council for Sustainable Development is an independent advisory body to the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. Its task is to provide advice and to raise public awareness for sustainability issues. Volker Hauff, a former Federal Minister and a Member of the the Brundtland Commission, and Klaus Töpfer, a former Federal Minister and UNEP Exec.Director, are chairing the Council with its 15 Members. The Members are ad-personam appointed by the Federal Chancellor and are representing civil society and major NGOs, the private sector, the academia, local communities, trade unions, and the media.

The 2010 annual conference is being hosted under the motto: “Resetting the clock: 2050”. The conference aims to take on considerations of the peer review on Germany’s sustainability policies, precisely on thinking beyond 2020. Important and prevailing decisions, be it on climate change prevention, infrastructure investments, demographic change or intergenerational equity and fiscal sustainability, should be taken in view of the year 2050.

See for the description : http://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/konferenz
 

Past events

1 July: Annual meeting of chairs of UN human rights treaty bodies (Brussels)

Olivier De Schutter will address the Annual meeting of the Chairs of the UN human rights treaty bodies, exceptionally convened in Brussels this year. The address will open the discussion between the Chairs of the UN human rights treaty bodies and the representatives of the EU institutions, which is planned to take place on July 1st in the afternoon.

The purpose of this exchange is to have an exchange on the relationship of the EU to UN human rights treaties and on the follow-up by the EU, in the areas falling under the competence of the EU, of conclusions and recommendations adopted by the UN monitoring bodies, both within the EU and in the external policies of the EU.
 
27 June: Annual Meeting of the Human Rights Council's Special Procedures (Geneva)

Olivier De Schutter will be attending part of the Annual meeting of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. He will arrive on June 27th and leave on June 30th.
 
23 ‒ 24 June: Expert Seminar "Human Rights Impact Assessments for Trade and Investment Agreements" (Geneva)

Organized under the auspices of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, this seminar will examine the importance and essential criteria of Human Rights Impact Assessments in the context of international trade and investment agreements.