The Right to Food... Progressive Solutions

All humans have the Right to Food,
as a basic survival right and as a responsibility of all civil societies.

The problems with getting food to all people are complex and numerous.

Poverty. Food waste. Poor government agriculture policies. Big agri-business.
Food price manipulation. Climate disasters. Corrupt politics. Globalization/distribution
and food-bourne diseases. Genetically-modified seeds/foods versus organic foods.

Each of these international problems poses a different issue to tackle.

The United Nations departments for food:  World Food Program (WFP),
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO),

and the World Health Organization (WHO) have their hands full.

Yet, as much as they do, progress is too slow, and they seem to grind their wheels

without ever really advancing much.

I believe this is because they are simply tackling too many issues at once.
They best they can do with such overwhelming problems

become solution-bandages, not solutions for the future.

Last month, Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, WFP,

asked the public on Twitter for advice on the problem of food waste.

Instead, I would like to give my response for the larger picture.

I believe the food problem need to be broken down into each single cause,

to allow better focus. Here's the steps:

List all the causes.

Make each year a focus of a single problem, for example,

"The Year of Food Agriculture Policies."
"The Year of Food Waste."

Solve-by-focus each cause, by having countries meet, workshop, discuss, task force,

and finally, make new policies, for the single cause, supported by international law.

cause by cause, year by year,

in 10 years, there may be a real difference in the food problem.

But first, of course, declare The Right to Food.

Make this the 1st year of focus: "The Year of the Right to Food."

The UN can pressure all countries to add this right to their constitution,

if they don't have it already.
It's amazing how many countries do not have the Right to Food.

After passing the Right to Food into law,
 there would be a legal basis for action.
Maybe, I'm naive about getting countries to meet and passing international law,
about being able to feed 7 billion people without GM seeds,
but why not try?

How about you, do you have a solution?