About CEFROHT
We are an indigenous not-for-profit legal advocacy and action-research organization using a human rights-based approach to promote adequate food and adequate living. We use legal tools to ensure the realization of land rights, food security, food safety and nutrition, livelihood rights, environmental health, and mainstreaming a food systems approach.
CEFROHT’s efforts target a sustainable food system, environmental health, nutrition, and economic rights, focusing on vulnerable populations such as women, children, orphans, people living with HIV/AIDS, persons with disabilities, and youth. This is achieved through integrated programs: Social Justice and Strategic Litigation; Advocacy, Partnerships, and Campaigns; and Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Climate Justice.
The main CEFROHT thematic area is Food Justice, pursued under the food systems approach to impact laws, policies, and practices of both duty-bearers and rights-holders from farm to fork. We work to make the entire food chain healthy and sustainable—spanning pre-production, production (regenerative agriculture), post-harvesting, processing, marketing, and consumption.
All these efforts are pursued using a Human Rights-Based Approach, encompassing the principles of participation, accountability, non-discrimination, transparency, human dignity, empowerment, and the rule of law.
Why choose us
Our Vision
A world where the right to adequate living for everyone is realized.
Our Mission
To promote social justice in food, agriculture, and investment systems through strategic litigation, research, advocacy, and community empowerment.
Our Core Values
Integrity, innovativeness, social justice, equity, and non-discrimination guide our work.
Our Thematic Areas
- Sustainable Access to Justice for Adequate Living Rights.
- Law and Policy for Health Diets and Prevention of NCDs.
- Agroecology towards a Sustainable local agri-food system.
Our Strategic Objectives
- To frame and promote adequate food, sustainable agriculture and investment justice as constitutional entitlements.
- To promote social accountability at local and national level for adequate living rights.
- To promote the justiciability of the right to adequate food, economic rights, and livelihood rights.
- To grow an organization that operates in an effective, efficient, professional, and accountable manner
CEFROHT Strategic Approaches
Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA)
CEFROHT understands that unequal power relations and social exclusion deny people their human rights and keep them in poverty. Therefore, we use a Human Rights-Based Approach to empower rights-holders to claim their rights and support duty-bearers in meeting their obligations. CEFROHT identifies rights-holders, their legal freedoms and entitlements, and the obligations of duty-bearers responsible for ensuring these rights are realized.
We enforce a “circle of accountability” throughout the policy cycle, ensuring policies and programs are responsive to the needs of rights-holders.
Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability
CEFROHT strategically employs legal empowerment, particularly for vulnerable groups, to secure their adequate living rights. We drive systemic change by enabling marginalized communities to use the law, legal systems, and legal services to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens.
This approach fosters accountability through direct engagement of individuals, communities, and civil society organizations. CEFROHT collaborates with communities, duty-bearers, and civil society to hold the state accountable while encouraging government and other actors—such as the media, private sector, and donors—to support and respond to these efforts.
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