Feeding Justice: Transforming Food Systems through the Right to Food

Abstract: Current agrifood systems not only fail to achieve food security and nutrition for all but also often deepen inequalities. The complexity of interactions between elements and actors within these systems requires addressing interconnected shortcomings through a human rights-based and systemic approach to achieve food security and appropriate nutrition for all while reducing social inequalities. The right to food (RTF) provides a clear guiding framework for achieving policy coherence across interventions tackling different elements of agrifood systems while steering the process itself. Ensuring participatory decision-making and accountability, where historically marginalized groups can engage meaningfully, is critical for improving resilient agrifood systems governance and driving equitable change. Building upon research, best practices, and lessons learned from a wide variety of stakeholders, this side event will showcase concrete examples on how to integrate the RTF into agrifood systems’ transformations.