Our Green Week: The right to food in conflicts - forgotten and disregarded?

Conflicts and wars are the main cause of food insecurity worldwide - even more so than poverty and the climate crisis. Yet the right to food is universal: it applies to all people, at all times and in all places.

The United Nations clearly identified the link between hunger and conflict in its Resolution 2417 and adopted guidelines on the right to food 20 years ago. But why do we still see so little progress? Let's talk together about what is needed to implement the right to food in conflict areas.

Welcome

• Imme Scholz, Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation

Impulses

• Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
• Swantje Nilsson, Head of Department EU Affairs, International Cooperation, Fisheries at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)

Panel discussion 

• Kira Fischer, Action against Hunger
• Arwa Damon, journalist and co-founder of the humanitarian organization INARA
• Betty Ka, Regional Emergency Relief Coordinator for the Sudan Crisis at the World Food Program (requested)
• Deike Potzel, head of division on crisis prevention, stabilization, peacebuilding and humanitarian aid at the German Federal Foreign Office (requested)

Moderation: Lena Luig, Heinrich Böll Foundation

We warmly invite you join us afterwards for an informal exchange with food and drinks.

Contact:
Hagen Döcke
IZ-Int. Agricultural Policy
E doecke@boell.de

An event in our series "Landwirtschaft anders - Unsere Grüne Woche 2025".

» Participation on site
at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Conference Center, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin

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