White House hunger summit failed to expand ‘right to food’, UN expert says

UN special rapporteur praises step in right direction but says structural inequality is underlying cause of hunger'

The White House hunger conference last week was a step in the right direction but missed a chance to address the systemic causes and to expand the right to food", according to a United Nations hunger expert.

Policymakers should be focusing on those causes if they want to solve hunger, said Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food. Racism, corporate control and poverty contribute heavily to hunger, he said.