The Rome Declaration on World Food Security is a document adopted at the 1996
World Food Summit World Food Summits are convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 1974 World Food Conference
The first food summit, the "World Food Conference", took place in Rome in 1974.
1996 World Summit on Food Security
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took place in Rome, Italy between 13 and 17 November 1996. The summit was organised by the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; . (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, , translates t ...
(FAO). The Declaration reaffirms the right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger and pledges political will and common and national commitment to achieving food security for all and to an ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015. Therefore, the document has important significance in relation to
Food security
Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, healthy Human food, food. The availability of food for people of any class, gender, ethnicity, or religion is another element of food protection. Simila ...
and the
Right to food
The right to food, and its variations, is a human right protecting the right of people to feed themselves in dignity, implying that sufficient food is available, that people have the means to access it, and that it adequately meets the individua ...
. Signatories commit to the implementation of the
World Food Summit Plan of Action.
Right to food
In the Declaration, member states stated the following in relation to the right to food:
"We pledge our political will and our common and national commitment to achieving food security for all and to an ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015."
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External links
Text of the Rome Declaration and Plan of Action(1996)
Food security