Why Food Justice Now?

As G20 President, South Africa has placed food security at the top of its agenda, creating a rare opportunity for transformative, rights-based solutions.

The opening dialogue, hosted in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, will explore:

• The urgency of foregrounding food justice within South Africa’s G20 agenda;
• The structural causes of hunger and poverty in the country; and
• Concrete policy pathways, both nationally and internationally, that can strengthen food sovereignty, advance economic justice, and build climate resilience.

Speakers include UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Olivier De Schutter, food justice advocate Caroline Peters, academic and IPES-Food member Raj Patel, and development specialist Nangamso Koza.

The discussion will frame the constitutional right to food as both a moral imperative and a practical pathway to economic and social stability.