A/HRC/22/50/Add.2
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2012
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food,
Olivier De Schutter
Addendum
Mission to Cameroon*
Summary
This is a report on the mission to Cameroon undertaken by the Special Rapporteur
on the right to food from 16 to 23 July 2012. After providing a brief introduction on the
mission, the report describes the food insecurity situation in the country, including the
particularly worrying situation of the inhabitants of the northern regions and of
marginalized and vulnerable groups; and the efforts undertaken to limit food insecurity
(sect. II). The report then presents the legislative and institutional framework in which the
right to food is ensured (sect. III) and analyses the three most important elements of the
right to food, namely, improving the availability of food, access to food and sustainability
(sect. IV). The report examines how Cameroon is applying the principle of using the
maximum of available resources, including revenue from the harnessing of natural
resources, to ensure the right to food (sect. V). The key elements of a national strategy on
the right to food are described in section VI. Recommendations are addressed to the
Government and to international organizations and development partners.
* The summary of the present report is circulated in all official languages. The report itself, contained
in the annex to the summary, is circulated in the language of submission and English only.
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