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From the Refettorio's collective deliberations to the legal and material structures behind food insecurity: a growing public library of publications, reports and critical research.
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The first Refettorio Journal documents the opening session of the États généraux on 8 October 2026: four tables, a shared debate, different experiences and the questions that must now become collective decisions.
Eight pages in French. A record of the people, contradictions and democratic practices shaping the future of Refettorio Geneva.
READ THE JOURNAL / PDF ↗02 / START HERE
An unapologetically direct introduction to what the right to food is, what states actually owe people, why charity cannot replace institutions and how hunger relates to democracy, law and power.
For people who eat every day but somehow still think this is abstract. A political and legal introduction, from food aid to institutions, the market and the responsibilities of the state.
READ THE ENGLISH EDITION / PDF ↗Une introduction directe au droit à l’alimentation : obligations publiques, aide alimentaire, marchés, démocratie et systèmes alimentaires, au-delà des slogans.
LIRE L'ÉDITION FRANÇAISE / PDF ↗03 / THE OBSERVATORY
ODAG / GENEVA
One historical baseline, three ways to read it. These editions belong to the same ODAG evidence framework; the illustrated version is a synthesis, not a separate investigation.
VISIT THE ODAG OBSERVATORY ↗ODAG / RTF GENEVA WATCH
STATE OF THE
RIGHT TO FOOD
IN GENEVA
2020 — SEPTEMBER / SEPTEMBRE 2026
2020–September 2026 · Baseline report v1.1
The inaugural RTF Geneva Watch baseline report: 30 structural, process and outcome indicators, a source-first reconstruction of 2020–2026 and the distinction between institutional progress and actual social outcomes.
READ ENGLISH REPORT ↗ODAG / OBSERVATOIRE GENÈVE
ÉTAT DU DROIT
À L’ALIMENTATION
À GENÈVE
2020 — SEPTEMBER / SEPTEMBRE 2026
2020–septembre 2026 · Rapport v1.1
Le rapport inaugural de référence de l’ODAG. Une analyse documentée de la mise en œuvre du droit à l’alimentation, des responsabilités publiques et des lacunes qui demeurent.
LIRE LE RAPPORT FRANÇAIS ↗ODAG / ÉDITION ILLUSTRÉE
LE DROIT À
L’ALIMENTATION
À GENÈVE
2020 — SEPTEMBER / SEPTEMBRE 2026
2020–septembre 2026 · Synthèse visuelle
Une lecture accessible et illustrée de la base de référence historique de l’ODAG : chronologie 2020–2026, méthode, 30 indicateurs et enjeux de redevabilité.
VOIR L'ÉDITION ILLUSTRÉE ↗04 / FOOD SYSTEMS, POWER & LAW
Two contributions to Geneva's right-to-food debate: a structural critique of the food economy and an independent legal briefing on a just transition.
FONDAZIONE MATER / 2026
LE SYSTÈME
ALIMENTAIRE
GENEVOIS.
UNE CARTOGRAPHIE MATÉRIALISTE
An analysis of scale, labour, ownership and governance in Geneva's food economy. The text treats the system as metropolitan infrastructure and makes its material structures visible.
Fondazione MATER · 26 pages. Estimates are orders of magnitude, not definitive accounts.
READ THE ANALYSIS / PDF ↗GENEVA ACADEMY / BRIEFING N°24
LE DROIT À
L’ALIMENTATION
À GENÈVE.
POUR UNE TRANSITION JUSTE VERS DES SYSTÈMES ALIMENTAIRES DURABLES
Christophe Golay's Geneva Academy briefing on a just transition to sustainable food systems: legal recognition, state obligations and policy recommendations for Geneva.
Christophe Golay · Geneva Academy, November 2024. Research supported in part by MATER.
READ THE ACADEMY BRIEFING / PDF ↗READING IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
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