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SPECIAL EVENT
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Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on
the Right to Adequate Food FAO Council -
128th Session Rome, 21 June 2005
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THE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
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• The Question of Development - I
• Section III of the Voluntary Guidelines
• national development efforts should be supported
  by an enabling international environment as a
  basis for the progressive realization of the
  right to adequate food in the context of national
  food security
• POVERTY results from unbalanced development
  process
• on two levels national and
  international
• HUNGER at the extreme end of poverty / social
  exclusion

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THE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
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• The Question of Development (cont.)
• DEVELOPMENT AS AN INTEGRATED PROCESS poverty
  and hunger cannot be addressed without attention
  to all aspects of development
• Hunger is not only an ethical issue
• Hunger is not only a local / national issue

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THE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
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• The Question of Development (cont.)
• BRAZILs approach
• - immediate action AND structural reforms,
  - action at national
  AND international levels
• Zero Hunger Programme
• Action Against Hunger and Poverty

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WHY - Historic Background of Right to Food in
Brazil
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• 1990s - Movement Citizen Action Against Hunger
  and Poverty and for Life, directed by Herbert de
  Souza
• 1993 - Creation of first CONSEA as a forum for
  social participation and policymaking (President
  Itamar Franco)
• 2002 - Fome Zero movement in 2002
• 2003 - Declaration of President Luiz Inácio Lula
  da Silva to achieve zero hunger in the country
  within a relatively short time span.

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HOW - Institutional set-up conducive to right to
food implementation
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• CONSEA, with 2/3 civil society and 1/3 government
  representation, which reports directly to the
  presidency
• Since 2002, national rapporteurship similar to
  UN special rapporteurship. Re-election of the
  National Rapporteur on the Human Rights to
  Adequate Food, Water and Rural Land in April 2005
  for a new two year mandate (2005-2006)
• Public Ministry, the most important institution
  in Brazil that assists citizens to obtain legal
  protection

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WHAT - Actions taken to implement right to food
in Brazil

• National Food and Nutritional Security Framework
  Law, elaborated by CONSEA. Similar legislation
  under discussion on state level (Ceará, Mato
  Grosso do Sul, Espírito Santo, Piauí, Pernambuco,
  Minas Gerais)
• CONSEA will present Guidelines to three branches
  of State activity, i.e. Executive, Congress and
  Judiciary. The aim is to obtain formal commitment
  to Guidelines, on next World Food Day. Guidelines
  to be presented also to state governors and
  mayors, as well as representatives of civil
  society and religious organizations

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WHAT - Actions taken to implement right to food
in Brazil (cont.)
BRAZIL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK WHY HOW WHAT KEY
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• Commission on Human Rights created by Public
  Ministry, in Jan 2005, to promote human rights
  based approach and culture in the work of Public
  Ministry
• Establishment of a National Network for the
  Protection and Promotion of the Right to Food
  (NGOs and CSOs)
• The Special Secretariat for Human Rights (SEDH)
  of the Presidency of the Republic has established
  a Special Commission to Monitor Violations of
  Human Right to Food.
• Assessment of public policies on their impact on
  right to food conduced by CONSEA
• Right to food promoted in international fora,
  e.g. WTO.

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Recent key events to advance right to food in
Brazil

• World Social Forum (Porto Alegre, 27-31 January
  2005)
• 32nd Session of the Standing Committee on
  Nutrition (SCN), held for the first time outside
  Northern Hemisphere, in Brasilia, March 2005.
  Its lead was Nutrition and Human Right to Food.
  
• - At the occasion, a Symposium on Realizing the
  Right to Adequate Food to help achieve the
  Millennium Development Goals was organized.
• - Also during SCN, over 4000 copies of the
  Voluntary Guidelines, translated into Portuguese,
  were distributed to Brazilian social movements.

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Lessons learnt from the Brazilian experience

• Importance of a National Council such as CONSEA
  as a public space for the coordination of
  positions between government and civil society.
• Potential for cooperation with other countries
  Bolivia, Mozambique, Angola and Haiti could
  benefit from the Brazilian experience
  initiatives for cooperation in due course

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THE END
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Ambassador Flávio Perri Permanent
Representative of Brazil to FAO Thank you. .