Institutional Roadblocks to Human Rights Mainstreaming in the FAO

Carolin Anthes investigates how and why the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) struggles with systematically integrating a right to food approach in its operations. She analyzes multi-dimensional institutional roadblocks that prevent human rights from being fully mainstreamed. These barriers are shaped by a powerful state of fragmentation and disconnection: a silo culture. The book also offers valuable insights which go beyond the FAO and suggests a fairly unconventional avenue for systemic organizational change in (international) public administrations.

Political ethnography of a contentious change process in the UN Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Carolin Anthes is an associate fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She previously served as a consultant in the FAO Right to Food Team in Rome and also advised the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Inhalt
Opening up and zooming in: The case of the FAO.- Methodological toolbox: Grounded theory, multi-sited ethnography, and discourse analysis.- Institutional roadblocks to mainstreaming the right to food in the FAO.- Nesting the analytical results within relevant academic debates.- Towards awareness-based systemic change in IOs.