Ensuring The Right to Food in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of UN FAO
Join the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic for a talk by Dr. Daniel Gustafson, Special Representative of the Director-General at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), former Deputy Director-General of the Organization, on “Ensuring the Right the Food in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of UN FAO.”
The talk addresses the interrelations between climate change and global hunger from the perspective of the UN FAO, highlighting how climate change exacerbates food insecurity and hinders the full realization of the right to food, while also examining how food systems contribute to climate change and why their transformation seems essential for both food security and climate mitigation.
Dr. Gustafson will provide insights on the UN FAO’s role and current activities, recent challenges and initiatives by countries related to climate change and the right to food. He has over 40 years of international experience working on approaches linking science and policy for food security, sustainable agricultural transformation and capacity development, having been the UN FAO’s Country Representative in Kenya, Somalia, India and Bhutan.
Moderated by Professor Emily Broad Leib.
Lunch Talk
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 12:20 – 1:20 p.m. EST
Venue: WCC 1019
Register here.
Coffee Chat will follow from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. at the CHLPI Office Lounge, 1607 Massachusetts Avenue, 4th Floor.
Bio
Dr. Gustafson serves as the Special Representative of the Director-General at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). From 2012 until 2020 he was the Deputy Director-General of the Organization. Dr. Gustafson has over 40 years of international experience working on approaches linking science and policy for food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural transformation and capacity development, having been the UN FAO’s Country Representative in Kenya, Somalia, India and Bhutan.
