24 & 30 June 2026

At the invitation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), APN joined the Right to Food team’s project, “The Right to Food in Conflict Settings and Protracted Crises”, as part of an international process examining how to dismantle the structural imbalances governing food systems in conflict-affected regions.

Within this framework, APN is a member of two working groups focusing on “Environmental Impacts of Armed Conflict” and “International Cooperation and People-Centred Reconstruction and Recovery”. APN is contributing through written inputs and participation in technical meetings.

During the sessions, APN’s General Manager emphasized the need for a critical examination of how control and political leverage exercised by states involved in conflict and occupation contexts can influence intergovernmental and humanitarian systems. She highlighted the case of the Israeli occupation, pointing to the severe restrictions faced by humanitarian actors in Gaza, including barriers to the entry of essential agricultural inputs such as seeds and water infrastructure during the ongoing genocide and ecocide.

She further stressed the lack of political will to priorities local procurement and utilize available resources to rehabilitate local food systems and address famine conditions. APN also raised concerns regarding data security for populations living under occupation and conflict, also noting that humanitarian interventions can disrupt local agricultural practices, including the replacement of native crops and the influx of ultra-processed junk food aid, as seen in Gaza.

In this context, APN underscored the importance of legal and ethical accountability for states and corporations complicit in ecocide and starvation crimes – an issue that can no longer be postponed. APN highlighted the role of grassroots movements such as APN’s “Revive Gaza’s Farmland” and “Together for Lebanon’s Olives” projects, which aim to resist ecocide and starvation and support community-led food sovereignty and recovery.