Terms of Reference to Develop an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Management Plan Sensitive to the Right to Food

An Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and the respective Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) allows for identifying the impacts and consequences a future project/intervention might entail, and establish adequate measures to manage the potential environmental and social risks and impacts.

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Given that many environmental and social risks from these operations affect food security, it is vital that ESIAs and ESMPs adequately reflect the right to food. The expansion and development of agricultural operations that are assessed as negatively impacting local food security and do not demonstrate improvements to the local security system shall not be authorized unless targeted prevention, mitigation and compensation measures are integrated.7

This document is the Terms of Reference (ToR) that presents a general outline for preparing and implementing an ESIA and ESMP sensitive to the right to food. It aims to support the recognized expert conducting the ESIA and ESMP in reflecting the right to food within the impact assessment and management plan. The generic ESIA and ESMP structures proposed and utilized by different recognized international organizations have been used as a basis for the document.