Climate Change and the Right to Food

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Climate change and the policies instituted to combat it are affecting the realization of the right to food in myriad, often unnoticed ways. This study highlights how the climate change regime and the human rights regime addressing the right to food have failed to coordinate their agendas and to collaborate to each other’s mutual benefit.

The current climate change regime fails to accurately address the human harms resulting from climate change itself, and is not operating with the necessary safeguards and preventive measures to ensure that mitigation and adaptation measures are fully complementary to the right to food obligations of states and non-state actors.

The study proposes concrete methods by which institutions can address climate change problems and realize the right to food symbiotically, in compliance with the principles of systemic integration under international law.

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Date of Publication

December 7, 2009

Publisher

Heinrich Böll Foundation

Number of Pages

160

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ISBN / DOI

978-3-86928-018-9

Table of contents

Table of Contents

Preface 9
Foreword 11
Executive Summary 14
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Climate Change Impacts on Food Security 26
1.2 The Evolving Consensus 35
1.3 The Added Value of a Human Rights Perspective 41
1.4 Bridging the Gap between the Climate Change Regime and the Human Rights Framework 47
2.0 Is the International Climate Change Framework Well-equipped to Take into Account Human Rights?
2.1 Introduction 49
2.2 The Climate Change Regime 51
2.3 Objectives and Principles of the Climate Change Framework 56
2.4 Climate Change Research and Information 65
2.5 Combating Climate Change through Mitigation Measures 71
2.6 Coping with Climate Change Harm through Adaptation Measures 78
2.7 Enforcing the Climate Change Regime 88
2.8 Conclusion 94
3.0 Is the Current Right to Food Framework Well-equipped to Deal with Climate Change?
3.1 Overview of Relevant Institutions 97
3.2 Raising Awareness about Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue 98
3.3 Monitoring Right to Food Policies in the Context of Climate Change 101
3.4 Accountability for Violations: Litigation 109
3.5 Case Study on the Powers and Influence of Non-State Actors: the World Bank Group and Other International Financial Institutions 119
3.6 Conclusion 121
4.0 Moving Forward – Recommendations
4.1 From Fragmentation to Systemic Integration of Human Rights and Climate Change Law 124
4.2 Recommendations for the Climate Change Regime 130
4.3 Recommendations for International Human Rights Bodies 138
4.4 Recommendations for the Food and Agriculture Organization 147
4.5 Domestic Integration 148
Acronyms 152
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