Briefing: Transforming Victoria's food system through human rights
This briefing explores how to tackle food insecurity by promoting equitable access to healthy and sustainable food.
The key points of this briefing include:
A rights-based approach to food could help Victoria tackle rising food insecurity and promote an equitable, resilient, healthy and sustainable food system
The impacts of food systems on health and environmental sustainability undermine the realisation of human rights
Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities should be amended to include the right to food and the right to a healthy environment
Including these rights in Victoria’s human rights charter would provide a mechanism for government accountability in relation to realisation of the rights
