Right to Food

One of FAO's main objectives is ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger.

The World Food Summit in November 1996 reaffirmed the right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, and gave a specific mandate to the High Commissioner for Human Rights to better define the rights related to food and propose ways to implement and realize them.

Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG)
for the elaboration of a set of voluntary guidelines
to support the progressive realization of the right to
adequate food in the context of national food security

New! Right to Food Guidelines

The World Food Summit 5 Years Later: The Right to Food: Achievements & Challenges by Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the FAO Legal Office is happy to present this page which contains the full text of publications and a timeline of events related to the right to food