GE.
10-17849
Human Rights Council
Sixteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the...
More
GE.
10-17849
Human Rights Council
Sixteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to
food, Olivier De Schutter
Summary
The reinvestment in agriculture, triggered by the 2008 food price crisis, is essential
to the concrete realization of the right to food.
However, in a context of ecological, food
and energy crises, the most pressing issue regarding reinvestment is not how much, but
how.
This report explores how States can and must achieve a reorientation of their
agricultural systems towards modes of production that are highly productive, highly
sustainable and that contribute to the progressive realization of the human right to adequate
food.
Drawing on an extensive review of the scientific literature published in the last five
years, the Special Rapporteur identifies agroecology as a mode of agricultural de
Less