World Food Day 2025 is calling for global collaboration in creating a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, and food-secure future. By working together, across governments, organizations, sectors, and communities, we can transform agrifood systems to ensure that everyone has access to a healthy diet, living in harmony with the planet.
Join us in a World Food Day 2025 event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). The University of Lodz Faculty of Law and Administration will hold an online talk on the right to food, food security and food resilience during a lecture: “Right to Food as a category of Human Rights” by Professor Monika Król. An interesting global insight will be also shared on implementation of the right to food in various legal orders.
Human rights are inextricably linked to human security, and the satisfaction of many of humanity's needs is guaranteed by international law and national legal orders. The traditional perception of human security in terms of the state is too narrow today, as the world faces unprecedented threats caused by demographic factors (over 8 billion people), ecological threats to ecosystems (degradation of all elements of the environment) radically altering the earth's biosphere, with consequent threats to the biological survival of its inhabitants, and finally destructive weather phenomena associated with climate change.
Demographic projections show a steady estimated increase in the world's population. A growing population has a significant impact on the environment, with increasing anthropopressure on all its elements. The demand for food is also increasing, forcing an intensification of agricultural production. Guaranteeing the needs of the growing human population for access to potable water, food, agricultural land, clean air, a clean environment or a safe climate has nowadays been normatived in international law in the form of human rights, the second generation of which include the right to food, but derived from the fundamental right to life of every human being.
The human right to food and the human right to the environment, although included in two different categories of human rights, are very closely linked. Without ensuring a high level of agricultural ecosystem services, it will not be possible to increase the efficiency of agricultural production that meets food safety requirements. It is the realisation of the right to the environment, access to land of agricultural quality, to clean drinking water, to a high level of biodiversity, or to a stable climate today, that reinforces the full realisation of the human right to food, and therefore the human right to life.
dr hab. Monika A. Król, Associate Professor at the university of Lodz is a Professor at the UniLodz Faculty of Law and Administration, a scholar in agriculture and environmental law, Chair of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Environmental Protection (the national research institute) and a global rapporteur for International Academy of Comparative Law.
We invite all members of academic society to participate in the lecture and rethink the right to food – something that we so often take for granted…
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Coordination of the event: UniLodz Faculty of Law and Administration
