The Right to Food should be a Material Human Right.

Feeding the world with insects? Making use of meat that never lived? The FII Institute’s recently launched “The Right?To Nutrition: How To Feed The World” impact report introduces these new and, at times seemingly unusual, solutions to achieving food security.

Calling for food security to be recognized as a material human right, the report raised the alarm that the progress made to reduce hunger in recent decades is now going into reverse. However, it did so while offering solutions hand in hand.?

Building on this sentiment, the report brought the readers’ attention to the fact that even after 50 years of world conferences, declarations, and targets— hunger and malnutrition remain the world’s greatest health risk.?

It cannot be ignored that the world is facing its “greatest food security crisis since World War II” and that “more than 3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet”, it stated.?

However, while the report shed light on these concerning facts and figures, it also introduced two important sections dedicated to addressing the problem with real, science-backed solutions.

The first section, New Landscapes, showcased ways that existing landscapes, established ways of farming or even the problems caused by climate change can be used for the planet’s benefit.?

Among the suggested food for thought in the section were ways in which the thawing of the world’s permafrost could provide the potential to tap a mostly unexploited agricultural resource.

The second section, New Ideas, put forth new and, at times, seemingly unusual paths to food security, such as feeding the world with insects, or making use of lab-grown meat.

These thought-provoking articles on how we can feed the world are the report’s gateway to directing people’s attention to an important overlooked fact—the inequality of food distribution.?

While we look to save the planet and provide food for the underprivileged, we tend to forget that one-third of the planet’s food is lost or wasted. In low-income countries, it may rot before reaching the market. In high income ones, up to 40 percent of it is thrown away uneaten.

So how can we beat hunger? The Director of the Institute’s THINK pillar, Safiye?Kucukkaraca, suggests 10 ways of doing so. She directs this charter at consumers, policy shapers, scientists, and governments—all of which are involved in the food supply chain.

In more ways than one, and inspired by the unprecedented global food inflation, the report is calling for action by all those involved.?

This interest in food security – and in the new science that can achieve it—is in line with the Institute’s vision of making a positive impact on humanity.

“We believe that having access to enough food to live and raise children healthily is the most basic human right. At the FII Institute we are taking the challenge of food insecurity very seriously and will be prioritizing it under our Sustainability Pillar,” said Richard Attias, FII Institute’s CEO, in the report’s editorial.

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