The Food, Trade and Nutrition coalition works for the realization of the Universal Right to adequate Food and the Right to Health. It believes that national and international action needs to be taken to combat hunger and to promote food and nutrition security. Governments, as the protectors of the common good, must make clear to the business community, civil society and intergovernmental organizations that they are all duty bearers.

In particular FTN’s work relates to the international trade agreements of the WTO and the EU.

The FTN coalition devotes special attention to the impact that various WTO agreements have on poverty and for the availability, affordability and quality of food for all. It believes that international trade contributes to each country’s development. But trade is not an end in itself. The coalition strives for a future in which all countries can implement their own food and nutrition policies, in which all people profit from international trade.