Over the past fifty years, there has been significant progress in boosting agricultural production, however this has hardly reduced the number of people whose right to food remains unrealized and who suffer from hunger and malnutrition, states a recent report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter.

The UN General Assembly boosts the protection of human rights globally, approving plans to improve the system which requires States to report on compliance with their human rights treaty obligations.