HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
12th session
14 September – 2 October 2009
[Excerpt from the statement]
According to new FAO estimates published recently, undernourishment reached a record level in 2009, passing the dreaded mark of 1 billion human beings suffering from hunger, which means, in plain language, that the food crisis has worsened considerably over the past year.
Despite the scale of the disaster, the States, which are primarily responsible for ensuring the realization of the right to food, do not generally seem to have given due consideration to the vital role of agriculture and the urgent need to rebuild agricultural policies on the basis of food sovereignty and peasant farming.