Global Report on Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 LAUNCHED!

 

It is with great pleasure and solidarity that WABA announces the launch of the global report Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012, entitled "Who Decides About Global Food and Nutrition? – Strategies to Regain Control."  The publication gives a multitude of examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the Philippines.  Civil society representatives launching the fifth annual report on the right to food and nutrition state that it is impossible to combat the causes of hunger while keeping existing power relations untouched. 

            “In terms of the food security of the first food, the global breastfeeding movement continues to call for greater vigilance around the more aggressive marketing of baby and toddler foods, using new promotional avenues on the internet, especially social networking, via mothers’ clubs, educational foundations targeting students, and as business interest NGOs etc.  These tactics serve to keep global breastfeeding rates low over decades despite various efforts by the Ministries of Health in countries, and by breastfeeding advocates,” notes Sarah Amin, Executive Director of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA).

            The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 focuses on exposing who is really in control of decision and policy-making when it comes to food and nutrition.  In reaction, social movements and other expressions of civil society have engaged in strategies to regain people's control over food and nutrition.

See attached for full Press Release. 

For more information, and to download the report: http://www.rtfn-watch.org 

 

 



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