Food First Information and Action Network
- Food First Information and Action Network
FIAN (Food First Information and Action Network) or FIAN International is an international organization defending the Human Right to Food. It has members in over 60 countries in America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
In 2006, FIAN has around 3300 members and eleven country sections: in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Honduras, India (and there also in the states of Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal), Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, Sweden and Switzerland.
FIAN works for the right of small farmers and landless people to feed themselves, for an end to world hunger and for food sovereignty. It organizes Action alerts in cases of violations of the right to food (for example eviction of farmers from their land which they need to feed themselves).
External links
* [http://www.fian.org FIAN International]
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