People-centered Food Systems: Fostering Human Rights-based Approaches
Project Overview
This project applies a human rights-based approach to food security and nutrition. This consortium effort aims to improve the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).
The project team seeks to use advocacy, build capacity, and develop accountability tools to better integrate human rights frameworks within food system policy and action. Initial project activities are taking place in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Honduras, and Uganda with the intention of scaling up the approach to other countries in later phases and producing global guidance on this issue.
Led by Dr. Jessica Fanzo, the project consortium includes academics, development practitioners, ethicists, and lawyers from Johns Hopkins University, Rikolto, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
Project Team
Led by Dr. Jessica Fanzo, the project consortium includes academics, development practitioners, ethicists, and lawyers from Johns Hopkins University, Rikolto, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. The JHU team includes Drs. Leonard Rubenstein, Anne Barnhill, Swetha Manohar, and Rebecca McLaren.
The project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, which will contribute half of the grant funding, and the multidisciplinary project consortium’s member organizations, which will jointly fund the remainder.