Mainstreaming climate adaptation policy within food security

Resumen

The construction of the Human Right to Food Security is a constant evolution. While human rights manifest themselves as self-integrative dimensions and in constant construction, these rights derive their validity from the dignity that every person bears on their individual level as they are being conquered through historical struggles symbolizing the achievement of people against oppression. The World Food Summit, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization, held in Rome in 1996, definitively associated the fundamental role of the Human Right to Adequate Food with the guarantee of Food and Nutritional Security which includes the right to clean air; a safe and stable climate; access to safe water and adequate sanitation; healthy and sustainably produced food. The IPCC last report states that there are widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have already occurred implying that approximately 3.3 to 3.6 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change. The general adaptation clause is presented in the UNFCCC Paris Agreement on the article 7.1 and establish the global goal on adaptation of enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability on a perspective of intergenerational equity. Mainstreaming is to integrate this adaptation policy within other policies, coordinating the efforts on systemic, organizational, and individual level, establishing not only a general and apart approach of the article 7.1 of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, but a full integrated adaptation policy in food security. The bottom-up characteristic of this soft law presents a form of multilateral and multilevel governance approach that presents the possible solution from a global to local perspective. This article is based on bibliographic and document analysis, and it’s based on the hypothesis that general policy is better achieved through its integration with a specific one that approaches a specific subject. Briefly the main goal of the adaptation policy is to be mainstreamed with/in food security policy to achieve both objectives thus realizing the aspirations of the international climate change regime and realizing the human right to adequate food.