pcd and the right to food spotlight on pcd launch 7 nov. 2011 laust leth gregersen concord denmark
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PCD and the Right to Food
Spotlight on PCD
Launch 7 Nov. 2011
Laust Leth Gregersen
Concord Denmark
The Urgent Hunger Challenge
- 1 in 7 person goes to bed hungry
- 1/3 of all states are severely food-insecure according to
the UN (70 Low-income-Food-Deficient-Countries)
-1/3 of global food production is wasted!
- The EU is key - world’s largest actor in both
- development
- agri trade, (most important partner for DCs)
-Coherence needed! (aid does not suffice)
A Human Rights Based Approach
-Access access to affordable and nutritious food is a
universal Human Right
-Encoded in Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948) and Int. Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Right (1966)
-Operational content endorsed by 185 states in Rome
(1996)
- Recognised EU’s own food security Framework
- Mutual obligation og internatonal community,
- Extraterritorial obligation not to violate the Right to
Food in other countries
Method
Case: CAP reform
-Right to Food can only be realised by enabeling sustainblae
agriculture in every region of the world
- Maintaining farming across Europe is a perfectly legitimit
policy objecive.
- BUT: DC’s must be allowed and supported in doing the same
- Direct aid result in EU exports below production costs (export
revenues often cover only half of costs)
- Uptil 70 % of factor imcome of EU farmers
- EU Safety net policies displace risks to DC’s
-Example: Dairy sector crisis in 2009 led to export surge to Sub-
Saharan Africa: 62 % increase in milk powder 2010
Way forward• EP in June 2011: the CAP should “not jeopardise the ability of developing countries’ populations to feed themselves, while respecting the principle of policy coherence for development (PCD)”.
•Regrettably this immensely important call has been ignored in the commission’s proposal from 12 October.
-CONCORD key asks:
- PCD principle in CAP legislation
-Monitoring mechanism
-Efforts to boost farmers bargain power in value chains
must be global in scope
