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<p style="margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><u><b>To
be released on September 25, 2012</b></u></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><i><b>Right
to Food and Nutrition Watch</b></i> <i><b>2012</b></i></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="CENTER" lang="en-US">
<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><b>WHO
DECIDES ABOUT GLOBAL FOOD AND</b></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="CENTER" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><b> NUTRITION? </b></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="CENTER" lang="en-US">
<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><b>Strategies
to Regain Control</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER" lang="en-US"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><b>to
be launched in Asunción, Barcelona, Berlin, Bogota, Brussels,
Cordoba, Cotonou, Dakar, Geneva, La Hague, La Paz, Lomé, Mexico
City, Nantes, Oaxaca, Ouagadougou, Paris, Quito, Rome, Vienna,<font color="#ff0000">
</font>and many more cities!</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3">In
preparation for World Food Day 2012, the fifth annual <i>Right to</i>
<i>Food and Nutrition Watch</i> will be presented to the public in
over twenty countries by representatives of fifteen civil society
organizations and their partners who worked together to publish this
report. </font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3">In
this 2012 edition, the <i>Right to Food and Nutrition Watch</i>
offers a multi-facetted overview of how the unfairly concentrated
power of decision-making results in the persistence of hunger and
malnutrition. </font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3">The
<i>Watch 2012</i> analyses the increasing influence and control of
agribusiness and financial actors on food and nutrition, including
their impact on food speculation and on the production of food
resources. It also describes the worrisome trend of governments’
and multilateral organizations’ increased recognition and promotion
of the private sector and related philanthropic foundations as
important stakeholders in the struggle against hunger and
malnutrition. Their role is played out importantly through public
private partnerships (PPPs) and as key investors in agriculture,
health, and other development ventures. The Watch highlights the lack
of adequate public regulation and the blatant conflicts of interest
in these developments.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3">On
the other hand, social movements and other expressions of civil
society have engaged in strategies to regain people's control over
food and nutrition. Several of these initiatives are analyzed in the
<i>Watch</i> as well. A certain pattern of common denominators is
highlighted: many of these struggles are rooted in the
conviction of food sovereignty and peoples sovereignty, and relate
directly in their political action to the use and strengthening of
human rights instruments. Last but not least, these movements seem to
follow a strategy to effectively occupy political decision space in
local, national, and global governance structures.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3">The
<i>Right to Food and Nutrition Watch</i> is the first and only
international periodical review that monitors state actors’ actions
related to the realization of the right to food and nutrition. This
report provides a platform for human rights experts, civil society
activists, social movements, the media, and scholars to exchange
their experiences on how best to carry out right to food and
nutrition work, including lobbying and advocacy work. The Watch<i> </i>is
also a powerful tool to put pressure on policymakers at the national
and international level to take the human right to food and nutrition
seriously into account.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in" align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3"><br></font></font></p>