• Context setting – the EU FSFS
• Objectives
• Agenda
• Registration

Interpretation in French, English and Spanish will be provided.

Context setting – the EU FSFS

Why do we need a rights-based approach and how can we use the Right to Food as a roadmap for social and ecological just transition of food systems ?

A rights-based approach to food systems transformation in Europe centers around the recognition and protection that all individuals have access to safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food, while also respecting the environment and the rights of food producers and all workers along the food chain. It aims to address the challenges faced by vulnerable populations and promote social and ecological justice throughout the food system.

A rights-based approach for food systems transformation in Europe requires collaboration among governments, civil society organizations, businesses, and citizens. By recognizing and promoting human rights within the food system, Europe can work towards creating a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system that leaves no one behind in Europe and beyond.

The EU has the opportunity now to develop an ambitious regulatory framework that sets these foundations, accomplishes with the objectives of the Green Deal and complies with international human rights and environmental obligations.

Objectives

This event aims to promote the EU leadership in advancing in the transformation of food systems that brings into conversation right to food, right to a healthy environment and right of peasants and rural workers to ensure a transition to sustainability.

We will count with the interventions of of David Boyd, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, the FAO legal services, experts on the right to food and the rights of peasants workers and different Members of the Parliament.

Agenda

Thematic areas - Speaker

• Critical perspectives on Food Systems and the Right to food by UN rapporteur
• The instrumental role of the right to food – FAO legal services by FAO - - Luisa Cruz
• A right based approach for the transformation of food systems towards social and ecological justice outcomes
  • The right to a clean and healthy environment by UN rapporteur UN rapporteur - David Boyd
  • UNDROP, Christophe Golay, Geneviève Savigny
• The EU legislative Framework for Sustainable Food Systems by Commission
• The right to food guiding the EU’s proposal Magali Ramel - Interdisciplinary Law Research Institute – University of Tours
• The right to food in National constitutions Valéria Burity - Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger - Brasil
• Food social fund in Montpellier Marie Massart - Deputy mayor of Montpellier
• MEPs interventions Benoît Biteau (Greens/EFA), TBC (S&D), Maria Soraya Rodríguez (Renew), TBC (EPP), Miguel Urbán Crespo (The Left/GUE)
• Concluding remarks Almudena Garcia Sastre FIAN European sections

Registration

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Interpretation in French, English and Spanish will be provided.