[OSGeo-Discuss] The Importance of the Right to Food

[Suchith Anand]

Dear all,


Find out more about the importance of the Right to Food and why it should be enshrined in law.  The panel session recording is available to watch on GODAN's Web site at https://www.godan.info/news/importance-right-food


The pain of hunger is the same for everyone, everywhere. Please join the GODAN Food Poverty Working Group https://www.godan.info/working-group-food-poverty  and contribute your expertise for our collective mission to end hunger and poverty, both locally and globally.


I am grateful to everyone, everywhere working for Zero Hunger Aim.


Best wishes,


Suchith



Dr Suchith Anand

Chief Scientist

Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition

https://www.godan.info<https://www.godan.info/>

https://council.science/profile/suchith-anand/



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From: Kathryn Bailey <kathryn.bailey at godan.info<mailto:kathryn.bailey at godan.info>>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 14:00
Subject: [GODAN WG: Food Poverty] The Importance of the Right to Food
To: Working Group on Food Poverty <food.poverty-discuss at godan.info<mailto:food.poverty-discuss at godan.info>>


Dear Colleagues,

Following the panel discussion on the Importance of the Right to Food that took place last week, we would like to let you know that the recording is now live on GODAN's Web site and YouTube channel: https://www.godan.info/news/importance-right-food

You will find a list below of links and resources related to this topic and the work of the panellists.

To share other relevant work, events and information with the group, use the e-mail address: food.poverty-discuss at godan.info<mailto:food.poverty-discuss at godan.info> or reply to this message.

If you would like any information on anything covered in the discussion or more broadly about the Working Group, please do not hesitate to get in touch or reply to this email.

All the best,

Kate
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Relevant links

Some links from Imogen (Sustain) on data and human rights:
https://www.openglobalrights.org/democratizing-data-is-key-for-addressing-covid-inequalities/
https://www.socialwatch.org/node/18295
https://www.cesr.org/opera-stories-giving-indicators-and-benchmarks-human-face-uk

And some links that more broadly cover the Right to Food:
A fantastic introduction to the topic of why the legal Right to Food is so important here -  https://www.sustainweb.org/publications/why_we_need_the_right_to_food/
https://www.socialwatch.org/node/18516
https://www.openglobalrights.org/coronavirus-in-austerity-britain-poverty-discrimination-compounded/
https://www.sustainweb.org/publications/right_to_food_no_recourse_to_public_funds/
https://inequality.org/research/uk-privatized-covid-food/
https://www.gi-escr.org/covid-19-blog-all-posts/litigating-for-social-justice-with-one-armed-tied-behind-your-back-why-economic-and-social-rights-must-be-incorporated-into-uk-law
https://www.sustainweb.org/blogs/mar21-food-poverty-right-to-food/
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/57840/food-insecurity

More on Nourish Scotland's work
https://www.nourishscotland.org/campaigns/good-food-nation-bill/
https://www.glasgowdeclaration.org/
https://www.nourishscotland.org/projects/our-right-to-food/ (project on the topic of co-creating relevant data for policymaking)

Find out what's going on at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security of the University of Edinburgh here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/global-agriculture-food-security

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Kathryn Bailey
Head of Communications
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)

Email: kathryn.bailey at godan.info<mailto:kathryn.bailey at godan.info>

Visit us at: www.godan.info<http://www.godan.info/>



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