The Foundation’s approach strives to ensure that policy decisions are informed by the expertise of those people affected by the impacts of climate change, and calls for solutions whose creation includes the people these policies are made for, such as grassroots practitioners like Kirdanu Girmay, a farmer and researcher from Tigray, Ethiopia (right), who participated alongside Berhanu Woelde-Michael, Director, Food Security Coordination Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development, Ethiopia (centre) and Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Regional Programme Leader, CCAFS (left), in a capacity building workshop that enabled them to share their expertise with high-level policy makers during the Hunger – Nutrition – Climate Justice Conference in Dublin in 2013.

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Human rights: their role in achieving climate justice and food and nutrition security

Posted on 16th April 2013

This article is in Categories: Briefs and Position Paper, Development, Ensure that Decisions on Climate Change are Participatory, Transparent and Accountable, Human Rights, Respect and Protect Human Rights, Support the Right to Development, Use Effective Partnerships to Secure Climate Justice

Human rights offer a framework for addressing food and nutritional insecurity at levels from local to international. They are particularly effective in highlighting the injustices caused by climate change impacts and the resource squeeze, the effects of which are hitting the poorest and most vulnerable disproportionately hard.

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