The right to food: food sovereignty, systems, and digital agriculture 

Legal scholar, Associated Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Co-Director of the International Joint Research Group in Agrifood Law and Food Systems, Dr Jorge F. Milian-Gomez, PhD met Penelope Wyatt Verseckas to talk about his research.

Here, he explains his new proposals for a fourfold interpretation of the right to food, and why connecting food rights to governance, to food systems, food sovereignty, and the new digital agriculture age are so important when discussing food security.

Literature discussed

• Milian Gómez, J. F. (2026). The legal architecture of the right to food: normative foundations and differentiated functions of its four-fold interpretation. The International Journal of Human Rights, 1-24.
• Milian Gómez, J. F., & Byttebier, K. (2025). Agroecological sustainability: Exploring the intersection of digital agriculture, ethics and the right to food. Discover Agriculture, 3(1), 91.
• What the Seed Holds: Seed Sovereignty and the Agroecological Transition | LinkedIn Taherzadeh, O., Cai, H., & Mogollón, J. M. (2026). Small farms contribute a third of the food consumed in high-income nations. Nature Food, 7(1), 66-73.