From the:
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
http://www2.unescobkk.org/eubios/faoeth1.pdf
Excerpts:
- The Organization’s very
mission – helping to build a food-secure world for present and future generations – implies the promotion of sustainability, which is itself of major ethical significance.
It is also FAO’s duty to facilitate debate and dialogue concerning ethics and human rights in fields related to its sphere of work – examples of salient areas being genetic resources, biotechnology applications and biosecurity issues. With the aim of stimulating international discussion and deepening the general understanding of key ethical issues, we are now launching a specific publications series to treat this multifaceted subject.
- The value of human health. Human health is improved by the elimination of hunger and malnutrition. Healthy people are more able to participate in human affairs and more able to live productive and meaningful lives. Furthermore, the protection of human health also involves ensuring adequate nutrition and safeguards against unsafe food. On both of these points, nations are agreed – as members of the World
Health Organization (WHO Constitution, 1946) and the Codex Alimentarius Commission
Excerpt from the FAO’s Constitution
The Nations accepting this Constitution, being determined to promote the common welfare by furthering separate and collective action on their part for the purpose of:
• raising levels of nutrition and standards of living of the peoples under their respective jurisdictions;
• securing improvements in the efficiency of the production and distribution of all food and agricultural products;
• bettering the condition of rural populations;
• and thus contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger; hereby establish the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ..
INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS AND BODIES CITED
Excerpt:
Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) and Cartagena Protocol
on Biosafety (2000)
Earth Charter (2000)
FAO Constitution (1945)
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