Food for Life

Global, Regional and National Food Security Architecture:

Getting to know the instruments of accountability

Obligations, promises & processes

National level

Constitution Legislation National implementation plans and other

programs Budgets

Regional & sub-regional levels- AU- NEPAD- Maputo Declaration 2003- CAADP (Comprehensive Africa

Agriculture Program)- African Charter of Human &

Peoples' Rights/ African Commission on Human & Peoples' Rights

- SADC- ECOWAS- COMESA- EAC

International level- World Food Conference 1974,

International Conference on Nutrition 1992, World Food Summits 1996 & 2002

- Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

- HLTF on Global Food Crisis -> Comprehensive Frame -work for Action (CFA)

- SRSG on food security and nutrition

- IAASTD (International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology for Development)

- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

- G8 L'Aquila Food Security Initiative

International level (2)- Universal Declaration of Human

Rights (UDHR)- International Covenant on

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)/ Committee on ESCR

- CEDAW / CRC- Special Rapporteur on the right to

food/ HRC- FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the

Right to Food

- Food Aid Convention- WTO Agreement on Agriculture /

TRIPS- UPOV- International Treaty on Plant

Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture

- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

- Convention on Biological Diversity

International level (3)- FAO Guidelines on Responsible

Agricultural Investment / Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural Resources

- UN Food Security Cluster

- International Alliance Against Hunger (IAAH)

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