Agricultural and Rural Convention
  • About
    • Who we are
    • Contributors
    • Weekly Briefing
    • Monthly newsletter
    • Contact
    • Editorials
    • All Articles
  • Agroecology
    • Agroecology
    • Seeds4All
    • Soil
  • CAP
    • All CAP News
    • CAP Strategic Plans
  • Farm
    • Agroecology
    • Diversification
    • Regenerative Agriculture
    • High Nature Value
    • Organic
    • Seeds
    • Soil
    • Access
    • New Entrants
    • Letter From The Farm
    • Farmers
    • Livestock
  • Environment
    • Climate
    • Biodiversity
    • Pesticides
    • Soil
  • Policy
    • Brussels
    • CAP
    • EU Green Deal
    • Farm to Fork
    • Biodiversity Strategy
    • International
  • Food
    • COVID-19
    • Pesticides
    • Trade
    • Agri-Industry
    • Workers
    • Tech
    • Landgrab
    • GM
    • Waste
    • Food Sovereignty
    • Seeds
    • Soil
    • Local Food
    • Digitalisation
  • Rural
    • All Rural News
    • Rural Europe Takes Action
    • Rural Dialogues
  • Places
    • Europe
    • France
    • Ukraine
    • UK
    • International
  • Assets
    • Rural Dialogues
    • Letter from the Farm
    • Publications
    • Weekly Briefing
    • Monthly newsletter
    • All Articles
HomeAuthorsOliver de Schutter

Articles by Oliver de Schutter

About Oliver de Schutter

Olivier De Schutter is co-chair of IPES-Food. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food from May 2008 until May 2014 and was elected to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2014. Olivier De Schutter is co-chair of IPES-Food. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food from May 2008 until May 2014 and was elected to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2014. Olivier De Schutter (LL.M., Harvard University ; Ph.D., University of Louvain (UCL)) is a Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and has also taught at the College of Europe (Natolin), as a Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University and as Visiting Professor at Columbia University. In 2013 he was awarded Belgium’s top scientific award, the Prix Francqui, for his contribution to the advancement of EU law, the theory of governance, and human rights law. In 2002-2006, he chaired the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights, a high-level group of experts which advised the European Union institutions on fundamental rights issues. He has acted on a number of occasions as expert for the Council of Europe and for the European Union. Since 2004, and until his appointment as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, he served as General Secretary of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on the issue of globalization and human rights. His publications are in the area of international human rights and fundamental rights in the EU, with a particular emphasis on economic and social rights and on the relationship between human rights and governance.

Latest from key partners

Calculating livestock’s environmental footprint is complex – but other questions are simple. #LivestockDebate.

January 17, 2016 Oliver de Schutter

Olivier De Schutter, Hans Herren and Emile Frison (on behalf of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) give ARC2020 the first contribution to the livestock debate – encompassing climate, sustainable diets and morals – we are running. […]

Rural Resilience

Co-constructing proposals rooted in actions on the ground: Visit the project page.

Carbon Farming: Stakes, issues and alternatives

Mathieu Willard of ARC2020 performed a study on future carbon farming regulation. Download the report.

Seeds4All

The Seeds4All project wants to amplify voices and connect people involved in agroecological seed production at all levels. Find out more.

This Month’s Articles

Missed an article of ours? Or would like to read it again? Find all our articles from this month here. Or browse through our chronological archive that stores all articles here.

CAP Strategic Plans: Reforming the CAP in Wartime

ARC launches a report summarising the key aspects of the CAP Strategic Plans approval process that started a year ago. Take a look here.

Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture

Connecting farmers, advisors, policies, nature conservationists, and critical thoughts around the trajectories of digitalisation. Get involved!

ARC2020 Newsletter

Sign up for our monthly newsletter on agri-food, rural, environmental policy and practices around Europe.

War in Ukraine

While the situation is still a changing one, the war in Ukraine is already destabilising food security in Europe. Find all articles here.

Tweets by @ARC2020eu

Tweets by @ARC2020eu

Contributors wanted

Interested in European food, farming and rural policy matters? Do you have great writing skills and an ability to deliver content accurately and on time? Then you could be just what we’re looking for! Find out more here.

  • Agri MEPs Vote to Reject the Nature Restoration Law – what’s next?
    May 23, 2023
  • Nature Restoration Law | Agri Committee’s Amendments Revealed – Reduced Targets, Increase Exemptions
    May 22, 2023
  • A Summer off? Commission flip flops on NGTs and Pesticides
    May 17, 2023
  • Reconnect With Beans – Take Our Food Power Back
    May 9, 2023
  • EPP Attacks Pesticide Regulation & the Nature Restoration Law
    May 8, 2023
  • Are NGTs the Cure to our Pesticide Addiction?
    May 2, 2023
  • Rural Realities | Testing Grounds for Wellbeing
    April 27, 2023
  • Strengthening Multifunctional Agriculture through Digitalisation: Insights from Europe and Japan
    April 27, 2023
  • Can the CAP and Carbon Farming Coexist?
    April 25, 2023
  • Sustainable Food Systems Law – EU Food Policy Coalition’s Recommendations for a Meaningful Transition
    April 25, 2023
  • Are We Ready to Amend the CAP SP to Fit For 55?
    April 19, 2023
  • The Michael Dower Award for European Rural Resilience
    April 19, 2023
  • Rural Resilience | A Collective Adventure
    April 17, 2023
  • GMO Deregulation Delayed – Where Are We At, Where Might We Be Going?
    April 13, 2023
  • France – Pesticides, Mega-Basins and Who Gets to do What
    April 13, 2023
  • Feeding Ourselves 2023 – Diversified Diversification in Action
    April 6, 2023
  • Feeding Ourselves 2023 | Fertile Ground for System Change
    April 5, 2023
  • Ukraine Joining the EU – An Elephant in the Room
    April 3, 2023
  • Nature Pushed to the Backburner – EU Round Up
    March 30, 2023
  • CAP post-2027: An Integrated Rural and Agricultural Policy – Part 2
    March 26, 2023
  • The German CAP Strategic Plan: The Ambition has yet to Come
    March 24, 2023
  • CAP post-2027: An Integrated Rural and Agricultural Policy – Part 1
    March 22, 2023
  • ECJ Rejects Fourfold Seed Cultivation Fee
    March 22, 2023
  • CAP, the Commission and Livestock Supports – Money Matters
    March 17, 2023
  • A primer – New Genomic Techniques and Sustainability
    March 15, 2023
  • Contact
  • Imprint
  • Data Privacy

Agricultural and Rural Convention