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2-day seminar on ‘right to adequate food’ kicks-off at PARC
Dated: 2013-04-28
ISLAMABAD: A two-day Workshop on Right to Food (RTF) has been started at Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) on Saturday.
The theme of the workshop is “Right to Adequate Food” and it has been organized by Roots Pakistan a grass root development action, which is Member of Food First Information & Action Network (FIAN) International.The inaugural session was participated by delegates from abroad, diplomats, academia, researchers, policy makers, Govt officials, civil society/NGOs and the farming community.
The Chief Roots Pakistan, Dr. Syed Wajid Pirzada in his welcome and inaugural address spoke about the socio-economic system failure to address global hunger, which has reached to 850 million people, despite toll claims about development.
He said hunger is a big stigma on human face, and it is a major impediment impacting development, such as attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He underlined the need for paradigm shift in food security, realizing human rights (HR) approach where both individuals and community have access to productive resources to sustain household, national and global food security.
The German FIAN Coordinator Sabine Pabst speaking on the occasion highlighted the role of FIAN as a campaign, which seeks world face of hunger.
She said almost billion of people are suffering from hunger in the world out of which 304 million live in South Asia.
However, the major causes of hunger are wars, natural disasters, unequal distribution of food and lack of access to and control over resources.
Meanwhile, the workshop recommended that the dichotomy and conflicts in global and national policies with regard to respect and protection of human rights needs to be removed and rights based planning be instituted as a basis for policy formulation in general and for food security policy in particular to realize the paradigm shift towards food sovereignty.
The workshop is an opportunity for the participants to enhance their skills and capacity to analyze and monitor food security using right-based approach, the workshop was conducted with technical support from PARC.
Source: (Online-International News Network)
The theme of the workshop is “Right to Adequate Food” and it has been organized by Roots Pakistan a grass root development action, which is Member of Food First Information & Action Network (FIAN) International.The inaugural session was participated by delegates from abroad, diplomats, academia, researchers, policy makers, Govt officials, civil society/NGOs and the farming community.
The Chief Roots Pakistan, Dr. Syed Wajid Pirzada in his welcome and inaugural address spoke about the socio-economic system failure to address global hunger, which has reached to 850 million people, despite toll claims about development.
He said hunger is a big stigma on human face, and it is a major impediment impacting development, such as attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He underlined the need for paradigm shift in food security, realizing human rights (HR) approach where both individuals and community have access to productive resources to sustain household, national and global food security.
The German FIAN Coordinator Sabine Pabst speaking on the occasion highlighted the role of FIAN as a campaign, which seeks world face of hunger.
She said almost billion of people are suffering from hunger in the world out of which 304 million live in South Asia.
However, the major causes of hunger are wars, natural disasters, unequal distribution of food and lack of access to and control over resources.
Meanwhile, the workshop recommended that the dichotomy and conflicts in global and national policies with regard to respect and protection of human rights needs to be removed and rights based planning be instituted as a basis for policy formulation in general and for food security policy in particular to realize the paradigm shift towards food sovereignty.
The workshop is an opportunity for the participants to enhance their skills and capacity to analyze and monitor food security using right-based approach, the workshop was conducted with technical support from PARC.
Source: (Online-International News Network)
