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These recommendations highlight that climate, nutrition, and food systems policies should be guided by human rights obligations and international law, emphasizing the principles of equity and justice. They stress the need for greater urgency and coherence across policies to address hunger. States need to uphold and expand their legal obligations to eliminate gender discrimination, ensure the right to food, and alleviate hunger, including during disasters and conflicts, based on the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Food and related guidance.
States must formalize the right to food in concrete laws and regulations, accompanied by transparent monitoring and robust accountability mechanisms. Food and nutrition security analysis should include the perspectives and experiences of affected communities, and hunger early warning systems should be directly linked to prompt political action and automatic funding for relief.
Citizens, civil society, and national human rights institutions must be supported so they can advocate for the right to food. Governments, multilateral organizations, and civil society organizations must strengthen capacities and systems to document, investigate, and report the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
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Stakeholders with an influence on parties to conflicts need to promote compliance with human rights, humanitarian, and criminal law, and support judicial efforts against perpetrators. UN Resolution on the protection of civilians in armed conflict must be fully operationalized and rigorously implemented. To formulate effective, context-sensitive policies and programs that avoid adverse effects, policymakers and practitioners must recognize how food systems and climate resilience are influenced by diverse needs and vulnerabilities and complex socioeconomic factors such as gendered power dynamics and divisions of labor.
All climate and food systems policy processes and initiatives must ensure the representation and leadership of women and marginalized groups and draw on their expertise in managing natural resources. Policymakers must integrate gender considerations into legal frameworks and policy design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Recommended measures include gender budgeting and social and gender audits.
Governments must redistribute public resources to redress structural inequalities and enable gender-equitable access. For example, public investments in care, education, health, and rural development should be used to address discriminatory norms and promote equitable distribution of labor within households and communities.
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Commitments to maternal, infant, and child health must be strengthened through, for example, the extension of the World Health Assembly targets and the upcoming Nutrition for Growth Summit. Development partners and governments should harmonize policies across sectors and coordinate relevant ministries. Agricultural support should focus on climate mitigation and gender-transformative, locally led adaptation.
International financial institutions, governments, and creditors urgently need to address the worsening debt crisis and lack of fiscal space in low- and middle-income countries. Debt restructuring, debt relief, and credit enhancements must be linked to investments in realizing the right to food, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and fulfilling the Paris Agreement. Essential responses to shocks and crises should not come at the expense of impactful long-term investments.
Policy Recommendations
Donor countries should make good on their commitments to increase development funding to at least 0. The donor community should also provide climate support in the form of grants to empower affected communities, especially women, youth, and Indigenous peoples, to implement local climate actions. Within the recently created Loss and Damage Fund, a small-grant window with simplified procedures should be established for these groups.
Global Hunger Index en de. Ritu uses an innovative technique to produce eco-friendly fuel from cow dung, providing a sustainable energy source for her remote community. Policy Recommendations in previous editions:. Policy Recommendations These recommendations highlight the need to respond to current emergencies while also transforming food systems so they are more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient—and thus are able to avert future crises.
Policy Recommendations These recommendations highlight the interest of youth in shaping their future as well as their right to do so.
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Generational and gender justice must underpin equitable, sustainable, and resilient food systems that fulfill the right to adequate food for current and future generations. Policy Recommendations Integrating a peace-building lens into the creation of resilient food systems and a food security lens into peace building can help advance both sustainable food and nutrition security and durable peace.
Policy Recommendations To ensure the right to adequate and nutritious food for all and to end hunger by , we must not only reshape our food systems to become fair, healthy, resilient, and environmentally friendly but also integrate them into a broader political effort to maximize the health of humans, animals, and our planet.