Right to adequate food

The right to adequate food has been consolidated as a human right in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Art. 11) in 1966. In November 2004, 187 states have passed the policy on the right to food. Hunger is a violation against the international human right act (Voluntary Guidelines 197 Kb).

Access to productive resources
Not only the access to food is meant as such, but the general possibility to have access to productive resources such as land or work, in order to produce food or to earn a sufficient monetary income to buy food. Especially women are mostly discriminated regarding to the access to productive resources.

Advocacy work
Misereor follows various strategies in order to save the achievement of this right of the people in rural and urban areas. In self-help programs people are educated on their rights. The self-organisation of groups is being supported to empower even the weakest, in order to stand up for their rights. In the field of advocacy work, Misereor supports international networks of worldwide operating NGOs in this field to enable them to follow-up their supportive work of the concerned vulnerable groups and ethnic minorities.