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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><u><b><span lang="">Press
release</span><span lang="en-US"> </span></b></u></font></font>
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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="5"><i><b>Right to
Food and Nutrition Watch</b></i> <i><b>2012</b></i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:20pt" size="5"><b>WHO
DECIDES ABOUT GLOBAL FOOD AND NUTRITION? </b></font></font>
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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:20pt" size="5"><b>Strategies
to Regain Control</b></font></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u>Contact:</u></font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3">Léa
Winter</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3"><i>Right
to Food and Nutrition Watch</i> Coordinator, Geneva</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="de-DE"><font color="#0000ff"><u><a><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">winter@fian.org</span></font></font></a></u></font></p>
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22 328 03 41 / +41 77 429 26 30</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:15pt" size="4"><b>Occupy
the Food System! </b></font></font>
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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:15pt" size="4"><b>Civil
society organizations call for a turnaround in global decision-making
on food and nutrition </b></font></font>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="de-DE"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><i>Geneva,
September 25, 2012</i></font></font><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3">
-</font></font> <font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">Civil
society representatives launching the fifth annual report on the
right to food and nutrition state that it is impossible to combat the
causes of hunger while keeping existing power relations untouched.
</span></font></font><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">"Food
and power are related. It is almost impossible to find one person
among the powerful in society and politics worldwide, who does not
have enough to eat," said H</span></font></font><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">uguette
Akplogan-Dossa, the Regional Coordinator of the African Network on
the Right to Food (ANoRF).</span></font></font><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">
"The tendency is for exclusion from economic and political
decision-making to go hand in hand with incidence of hunger and
malnutrition." </span></font></font>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="de-DE"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">The
global report </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Right to Food and
Nutrition Watch 2012</i></span><span lang="en-US">, with the title
"Who Decides About Global Food and Nutrition? – Strategies to
Regain Control," </span><span lang="en-US">gives a multitude of
examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition
that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and
land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as
illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to
inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in
agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the
Philippines. </span>"Those who protest because they have been
deprived of their land and cannot feed their family from their work
are often arrested and victims of violence. This is unacceptable,"
said Gerald Staberock, Secretary General of the World Organisation
against Torture (OMCT).</font></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="de-DE"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">"We
can no longer accept chronic hunger or food riots being portrayed as
consequences of natural disasters or anonymous market failures,"
stated Lalji Desai</span></font><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3">
from the </font><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3">World Alliance
of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Nomadic Pastoralists (WAMIP) based
in India</font><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></font><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">"The
</span></font><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">terrible
living conditions for hundreds of millions</span></font><font size="4"><span lang="en-US">
</span></font><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">of people</span></font><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">
actually are caused by the loss of control over their food and
nutrition, and that’s why we struggle for our right to
self-determination and food sovereignty."</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3">The
<i>Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 </i>focuses on exposing who
is really in control of decision and policy-making when it comes to
food and nutrition. "Far too often, agribusinesses and nutrition
companies use their weight and influence to increase their profit
margins, and to manipulate the rules to their interests and
convenience, without regard for the best interests of small-scale
food producers and the survival of their communities - let alone the
moral and legal requirements of the human right to food,"
observed Peter Prove, Executive Director of the Ecumenical Advocacy
Alliance (EAA). </font></font>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0in" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3">In
reaction, social movements and other expressions of civil society
have engaged in strategies to regain people's control over food and
nutrition. "With the reform of the Committee on World Food
Security, an innovative way of inclusive governance has been
established. It has been a breakthrough for those civil society
groups that traditionally have been excluded from decision making
processes on all levels," said Flavio Valente, Secretary General
of FIAN International. "The time has come to occupy political
space and fight for the primacy of human rights."</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>For
more information, and to download the report:
<font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.rtfn-watch.org/">http://www.rtfn-watch.org</a></u></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" lang="en-US"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3">Published
in English, Spanish and French in September 2012</font></font></p>
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<font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u>Published by</u>:
Brot für die Welt, FIAN International and Interchurch Organization
for Development Cooperation (ICCO) in partnership with the African
Network on the Right to Food (ANoRF), International Centre Crossroad
(Crocevia), DanChurchAid (DCA), Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA),
Habitat International Coalition (HIC), International Indian Treaty
Council (IITC), Observatori DESC - Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, People's Health Movement (PHM), Inter-American Platform for
Human Rights, Democracy and Development (PIDHDD), US Food Sovereignty
Alliance (USFSA), World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), and
World Organisation against Torture (OMCT).</font></font></p>
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