Food security and global security - IEEE

Julia Gifra and Susana BeltránThe human right to food and wateron the right to food (48) and which were covered more widely in subsequentreports. For example, access to land and credit. Based on the reality thathunger is mainly a problem in rural areas and that these are mostly home topopulations with no access to land, whether through corruption or becausethere is no ordered census system for property ownership, farming permits orbecause there is a high concentration of farmland ownership not in the handsof those who work the land. The rapporteur put forward the need to tackle afair transparent agrarian reform process that was redistributive and guaranteedland access as one of the main elements to eradicate hunger around the world.Several reports were dedicated to this, specifically that of 2002 which, in short,defined land access and agrarian reform as essential elements to the right tofood and suggested paying more attention to the concept of food sovereigntyand the demands of small-scale farmers without land, based on the reformsalready promoted and carried out in several countries that had effectively ledto improving the situation of many people (49) .40Many other topics should be added to this issue, including gender and foodor the role of multinational corporations (50) , the relationship between the rightto food and the right to water (51) , the fish trade and fishing industry (52) , foodsecurity and sovereignty (53) , States’ extraterritorial responsibilities (54) , the rightof indigenous communities to food and the responsibility of internationalorganisations regarding the right to food (55) . With regard to the latter, theformer rapporteur set out, at the time, an open complaint against the economicdevelopment models promoted by the World Bank, the International MonetaryFund and the World Trade Organisation as he saw them as placing the right tofood of small-scale farmers at risk.Another highlight on the long list of topics assessed by the former rapporteuris the impact of globalisation on the right to food (56) , children’s right to(48)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, E/CN.4/2001/53,9th February 2001, para. 68.(49)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, A/57/356, 27thAugust 2002.(50)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, A/58/330, 28thAugust 2003.(51)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, E/CN.4/2003/54,10th January 2003.(52)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, A/59/385, 27thSeptember 2004.(53)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, E/CN.4/2004/10,9th February 2004.(54)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, E/CN.4/2005/47,24th January 2005.(55)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, A/60/350, 12thSeptember 2005.(56)Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, E/CN.4/2006/44,16th March 2006.