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

Empowering women is shortcut to tackling hunger – UN expert on right to food

(4 March 2013) GENEVA – “Sharing power with women is a shortcut to reducing hunger and malnutrition, and is the single most effective step to realizing the right to food,” said the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, while urging world governments to adopt transformative food security strategies that address cultural constraints and redistribute roles between women and men.
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Last chance to development-proof the CAP, warns UN food expert

[17 January 2013] BRUSSELS/GENEVA – With a key European Parliament vote only days away, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, urged EU legislators to change the course of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform before development concerns are excluded.
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'Ocean-grabbing' as serious a threat as ‘land-grabbing’ – UN food expert

[30 October 2012] NEW YORK – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, warned today of the threat of ‘ocean-grabbing’ to food security, and urged world governments and international bodies to halt the depletion of fish stocks, and take urgent steps to protect, sustain, and share the benefits of fisheries and marine environments.
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CFS round-up: shaping a coherent global governance of food security

[26 October 2012] BRUSSELS – The Special Rapporteur welcomes the significant progress made by the 39th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), convened in Rome on 15-20 October.
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Coming Events

8 April: Colloquium on Agroecology

8 April: Colloquium on Agroecology at the French Senate: “L’agroécologie: une pratique d’avenir” (Paris)
 
11 April: Address to the Centre for Development and Environment

11 April: Address to the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) and World Trade Institute on 'The Right to Food: Need for Action and Knowledge Gaps' (Bern)
 
15-16 April: High Level Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice

15-16 April: High Level Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice (Dublin)
 

Past events

21 March: Address to INRA

21 March: Address to the INRA conference on food aid and the right to food (Montpellier)
 
6 March - Address to all-party parliamentary group

6 March: Address to All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development of the UK Parliament (London)
 
18 March: Seminar on social protection (Geneva)

18 March: Participation in the Seminar on social protection as a catalyst for food security and the right to adequate food (International Labor Organization, Geneva)