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Malawi: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter: Addendum - Mission to Malawi (A/HRC/25/57/Add.1)

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Source: UN Human Rights Council
Country: Malawi

Human Rights Council

Twenty-fifth session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Summary

The present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 22/9, contains the findings of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food on his visit to Malawi from 12 to 22 July 2013. The Special Rapporteur outlines the state of food and nutrition insecurity in the country (sect. III), characterized by chronic malnutrition among half of children under the age of 5; significant disparities between regions and urban and rural areas; and recurrent need for the provision of food aid in response to acute food insecurity during the lean season. He examines the legal, institutional and policy framework for the realization of the right to food (sect. IV), noting the need for greater accuracy of national surveys of poverty and food insecurity. The Special Rapporteur assesses the country’s main agriculture support programme, the Farm Input Subsidy Programme, advising that it is in need of reform and that policies on agricultural development should be informed by five critical transformations (sect. V). He then examines difficulties faced by specific groups in gaining access to adequate food, related to workers’ access to a living wage; smallholders’ access to land, security of tenure, and markets; the limited reach of social protection programmes, including school feeding programmes; specific impediments faced by women; and inadequate provision of food in prisons (sect. VI). With regard to the commitment of Malawi to make maximum use of available resources for the realization of the right to food, the Special Rapporteur highlights the need to address illicit financial outflows and revenue losses from tax concessions granted to large companies (sect. VII).
Finally, the Special Rapporteur encourages the adoption of a national food and nutrition framework law (sect. VIII) and lists key recommendations for the Government (sect. IX).


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