Professor at UCLouvain, Co-Chair of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2008-2014), Olivier De Schutter will take up his new position on Friday 1 May as Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty. On this occasion, he held talks with EUROPE on the social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and, more broadly, on the European Union’s action to deal with this unprecedented situation.
While...