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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to
transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, pursuant to Council resolutions 6/2, 31/10 and
32/8. The report was written in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on the
implications for human rights of
the environmentally sound management and disposal of
hazardous substances and wastes. In the report, a clearer account is provided of global
pesticide use in agriculture and its impact on human rights; the negative consequences that
pesticide practices ha
ve had on human health, the environment and society, which are
underreported and monitored in the shadow of a prevailing and narrow focus on
“
food
security
”
, are described; and the environmental and human rights regimes are examined to
determine whether th
e constituent rules are sufficient to protect farm workers, consumers
and vulnerable groups, as well as the natural resources that are necessary to support
sustainable food systems.
