FAO has launched a Free Online Course on Consumer Organizations and the Right to Adequate Food. Certificate will be provided after the completion of the Course.

About the Course

The course explains human rights concepts and provides tools for consumer organizations as key stakeholders, to support their communication, campaigns, advocacy and policy dialogue and to help bring awareness of human rights closer to consumers.

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FAO Course on Consumer Organizations and the Right to Adequate Food

Audience

This course addresses the subject matter from a technical perspective but is written for the general public. It is primarily intended for:

  • Policy-makers and advisors on labour, migration, agriculture and rural development.
  • Managers and technical staff in the ministries responsible for agriculture, rural development, migration and employment.
  • United Nations Country Teams and FAO staff.
  • Academia and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) whose work relates to migrant workers or labour supply in agriculture/agrifood systems.
  • General public.

Learnings

  • How human rights, the human rights-based approach and the right to food relate to consumer organizations. 
  • Areas of action for consumer organizations that can benefit from a human rights-based approach. 
  • Human rights instruments and resources that can support the actions of consumer organizations.

Course Structure 

The course provides a quick introduction to human rights and the human rights-based approach, as they relate to consumer organizations. Subsequent sections describe some of the areas of action for community organizations that can benefit from a human rights-based approach, specifically:

  • Action 1: Protect the right to food of consumers 
  • Action 2: Support national policy and legislative development 
  • Action 3: Engage with human rights mechanisms 
  • Action 4: Promote sustainable consumption 
  • Action 5: Support private sector accountability

System Requirements

This course runs on the latest versions of the major browsers, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.

The course opens in a separate popup window. If this does not happen, a popup blocker in the browser is probably preventing it from opening and you will need to disable popup blockers for this site. Please read the following instructions on how to do this.

How to Register?

Interested participants can register through this link.

Deadline

There is no deadline for registration.

Click here to view the official notification of the FAO Course on FAO Course on Consumer Organizations and the Right to Adequate Food.

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