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Michael Fakhri, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
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Michael Fakhri, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

Food Sleuth Radio · Melinda Hemmelgarn

November 10, 202328m 9s

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Show Notes

Did you know that we have more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet and then some?  Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Michael Fakhri, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Fakhri is a  professor at the University of Oregon,  School of Law where he teaches courses on human rights, food law, development, and commercial law. He is also the director of the Food Resiliency Project in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center.  Fakhri discusses the political roots of hunger and famine, the multiple benefits of agroecology, the ethics of patenting of seeds, violence in the food system, and the relationship between the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the pesticide industry.
 
 Related website:  https://law.uoregon.edu/directory/faculty-staff/all/mfakhri

Violence in the food system: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/flyer-violenceFoodSystems-PRINT.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1U128rbc6v2p27a-B6BAgGrEbtLev7IgRiQEaVhJmyjP0gqmwnEDgMnvg

Seeds report: https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2022/03/seeds-central-peoples-food-systems-cultures-and-human-rights 

Topics

United Nationshuman rightsfoodagriculturelawagroecology