Dr Christophe Golay, Graduate Institute Visiting Lecturer and Alumnus, and Michaela Büschi, PhD student at the Institute, just published a new study on the right to food and global strategic frameworks with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

The study aims to ensure that states and international organisations will be accountable to their commitment to reduce hunger by half by 2015. It proposes new ways to integrate the right to food in the two United Nations frameworks on food security, the Comprehensive Framework for Action developed by the High Level Task Force of the UN Secretary General on Global Food Security, and the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition, which will be adopted by the Committee on World Food Security of the FAO in October 2012

The study was published in the context of a partnership between the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and the FAO. More information about the study is available on the FAO website.

Christophe Golay is a research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute and was Legal Adviser to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler.

The Geneva Academy is a joint centre managed by the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva.

The full study is available here.