From TWN News service
Geneva, 8 May (Kanaga Raja) — The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) should reaffirm the need, not only to increase food production, but to re-orient agro-food systems and the regulations that influence them at national and international levels, towards sustainability and the progressive realization of the right to food.
This was one of the key recommendations highlighted by Mr Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, in his submission to the current seventeenth session of the Commission taking place in New York from 4-15 May.
The rights expert also underscored the importance of reforming the global governance of the global food system. In this regard, De Schutter pointed to the multilateral trading system as being “heavily skewed in favour of a small group of countries, and in urgent need of reform.”
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