for Tread Softly background briefings on Food Security
Sustainable Development Goal
Zero Hunger – from World Food Programme
Ending Hunger: What would it cost? from IISD and IFPRI
Global Nutrition Report 2017 – Summary
The State of Food Security
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2017 from Food and Agriculture Organization
The Future of Food and Agriculture: Trends and Challenges: Summary from Food and Agriculture Organization
Ending Rural Hunger Extensive resource of graphics and data on rural hunger
2017 Global Hunger Index from International Food Policy Research Institute
Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index Ranking governments on their political commitment
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2016 from UN Food and Agriculture Organization
News and Analysis
Food and Agriculture from IPS News
Food Security from IRIN News
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Right to Food
The Right to Adequate Food – briefing note from Food and Agriculture Organization
The contribution of the right to food to global food security: a tool not a symbol from UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Gender and the Right to Food from UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Precarious Lives – why it’s vital to protect the right to food at a time of price volatility – from Institute of Development Studies
Governance of Food Security
Committee on World Food Security
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
Final Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food Olivier De Schutter, January 2014
Hope in West Africa ship tour, 2017 – Greenpeace research expedition on illegal fishing
Campaign Groups
Small-scale Farming
Soil fertility: Agro-ecology and not the Green Revolution for Africa from African Centre for Biodiversity
Agroecology Knowledge Hub from UN Food and Agriculture Organization
From uniformity to diversity: a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems from International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food systems (IPES)
Who will feed Africans? From Friends of the Earth Africa
From the Roots Up: How Agroecology can feed Africa from Global Justice Now
Industrial Agriculture
Who Will Feed Us – The Peasant Food Web versus The Industrial Food Chain from ETC Group
Too Big to Feed Exploring the impacts of mega-mergers, consolidation and concentration of power in the agri-food sector from International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems
The three agricultural input mega-mergers (ChemChina-Syngenta; Dow-DuPont; and Bayer-Monsanto) from African Centre for Biodiversity
Agribusiness mega-mergers expose need for UN Competition Convention from Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017
Facilitating corporate capture or investing in small-scale sustainable agriculture and agroecology? from Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017
GMO Crops
Genetically Modified Foods – FAQs from World Health Organization
World Food Prices
The FAO Price Index from Food and Agriculture Organization
Biofuels and Land-grabbing
The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad? from GRAIN
Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap from GRAIN
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab published by GRAIN
Research Resources
Silent but Deadly: Estimating the real climate impact of agribusiness corporations from Global Justice Now
OECD Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2016
Africa Agriculture Status Report 2017 from Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
No Ordinary Matter: Conserving, Restoring and Enhancing Africa’s Soils a Montpellier Panel Report
Seed Laws that Criminalise Farmers from GRAIN
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more Food Security briefings
Food Security Definition and Global Divide
Right to Food
Sustainable Development Goal for Food
Causes of Food Insecurity
Governance of Food Security
Solutions to Food Insecurity
