Food Security

The transformation of food systems can play an essential role in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 on zero hunger, and ensuring that all people have adequate access to food and nutrition.

IDLO supports this through a rule-based transformation of food systems that is equitable, just and sustainable, and in line with international human rights principles and instruments. We embrace the rule of law as a catalyst for this transformation firmly embedding it in IDLO’s Strategic Plan 2021-2024, and focusing our work on three core elements:

• Empowering the most food insecure people to claim their rights,
• Strengthening food systems governance through sound legal and regulatory frameworks and effective institutions; and
• Improving and safeguarding equitable access to land, water and natural resources.

A thematic area focused on the rule of law for food security also provides opportunities for strengthened collaboration with UN agencies focused on food and agriculture.

Read more about IDLO’s work on the rule of law for food security:

• Policy brief: Rule of Law for Food Systems transformation
• The Rule Of Law and Food Systems Transformation in the Sahel: Addressing The Conflict-Climate-Food Security Nexus
• Strategies for smallholder producers’ access to credit and markets in Tunisia