scholarly journals Make federal food assistance rights-based

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly D. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Federal Food ◽  
Federal Recognition ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Right

AbstractFederal food assistance in the USA is an agglomeration of programs, the legacy of charitable and needs-based approaches that have been in place since the 1930s. Moving toward a rights-based approach would overcome many of the problems of these programs, such as the stigma attached to receiving assistance, the fragmentation of different programs with different eligibilities and the disconnect between monitoring and strategies to reduce food insecurity. Although the USA has not accepted its obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfill the right to adequate food and nutrition, steps can be taken regardless toward a rights-based approach at the federal, state and municipal levels. With federal recognition of the right to adequate food and nutrition and incorporation within the Nutrition Title, however, a complete reshaping of federal food policy would be possible.

scholarly journals Globally Securing Food in an Insecure World – Opportunities and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariam Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Global Food

This paper looks into the necessity of a global governance system for food security from a "humane" side, with a focus on countries and MNCs. It also explores potential mechanisms to drive MNCs involvement in the global governance of food security into a more inclusive path. Furthermore, the paper explores a more sustainable side to globally governing food security. All in all, this paper calls for the reshaping of a global governance system that better matches the root causes of food insecurity, rather than tries to solve hunger with food aid and provision. The solution starts with asking the right questions. The global governance system should adopt a sole human rights framework while addressing food insecurity. It should acknowledge that questions such as “for whose benefit?” is just as important as “how to produce more?”. Although effective, International Governmental Organizations should further consider how global rules affect different people, who will bear the risks, who will get the benefits from changes, who remain disempowered, and whose ability to control is neglected or enhanced. Global food policy should not just be feeding people, but rather feeding them equitably, appropriately, and sustainably. This brings about a new global food regime that’s integrative of the human right to food.

scholarly journals An Analysis of New Zealand’s Role in Food Insecurity in Fiji

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Laura Barrett
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Imported Foods ◽  
The Right

<p>Access to adequate food is a human right. Despite this, globally around three billion people lack access to food sufficient to allow them to live free from hunger and malnutrition. In the Pacific, despite millennia of positive nutrition, they now have some the highest rates of diabetes and obesity in the world, and 75 percent of their population are dying prematurely from non-communicable diseases (NCD’s). One of the main risk factors for NCD’s is an unhealthy diet. A key finding coming out of the Pacific Food Summit in 2010 was that imported foods represent a threat to Pacific food security. New Zealand is a key trader with the Pacific. It has also come under criticism in recent years over its trade of poor quality meat to the Pacific, which it has been argued is contributing to poor health outcomes there. This research seeks to look deeper into the relationship between New Zealand trade and Pacific food insecurity, using Fiji as a case study. A key foundation for this research is the ‘right to food’. The right to adequate food is a fundamental right of all human beings. This is established by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and subsequent treaties, to which all signatory countries are bound. Recently, this right is being discussed in an extraterritorial context, meaning states have obligations not only to those within their territory, but across the globe. This places obligations on states to both respect the right to food of citizens globally, and also to protect them against actions taken by those within their territory which would undermine this right. It is against this backdrop, utilising interviews, data and policy analysis, that the trade relationship between New Zealand and Fiji is analysed.</p>

scholarly journals Roles and capacity of duty bearers in the realization of the human right to adequate food in Uganda

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (48) ◽  
pp. 5493-5509
Author(s):  
PM Rukundo ◽  
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JK Kikafunda ◽  
A Oshaug ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Nutrition Policy ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Right

The right to adequate food recognised under international law provides a strong foundation for eradicating hunger and malnutrition in all nations. Uganda ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1987 and thereby committed itself to ensure the realization of the right to adequate food recognised under Article 11 of the Covenant. This study analysed the roles and capacity of duty bearers in the realization of the right to adequate food in Uganda. Structured interviews were held with purposefully selected duty bearers from 11 districts in the country between February and July 2007. Districts were selected by criterion based sampling. Relevant policies, budgets, and legislation were also reviewed, particularly with state obligations on human rights, and capacity of duty bearers in mind. Although this right is expressly recognised in the Food and Nutrition Policy of 2003 in which a multi-sectoral approach is proposed, sector-specific roles are not explicitly defined in Uganda’s institutional and policy framework. Most duty bearer (63%) considered the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) as being responsible for the delays in implementing the relevant actions for the right to food. The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) reported receiving inadequate budget resources to support the right to food. Only 20% of duty bearers had knowledge of the General Comment 12, which is an important United Nations instrument that defines and elaborates on the human right to adequate food. Duty bearer’s knowledge of the right to food in the national Constitution had a significant (X2 = 0.003; P<0.05) positive correlation (R=0.283) with membership status to an ad hoc Uganda Food and Nutrition Council (UFNC). A proposed Food and Nutrition Bill had taken over 10 years without being presented to the National Parliament for the process of enactment into law. As such, most of the support for this right came from development partners. Whereas the ministry of health and MAAIF are line ministries in the implementation of food and nutrition policy, the right to food roles of the various duty bearers in Uganda need to be well defined. Capacity development is also needed, particularly related to integrating right to food sector-specific roles into the theoretical development and practical implementation of food and nutrition security programmes at all levels in the country.

scholarly journals Broken promises: a rights-based analysis of marginalised livelihoods and experiences of food insecurity in large-scale land investments in Tanzania

Food Security ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atenchong Talleh Nkobou ◽  
Andrew Ainslie ◽  
Stefanie Lemke
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Critical Requirement ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
The Right ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

AbstractProponents of large-scale land investments (LSLI) still promote them as a development opportunity, which can lead, among other benefits, to job creation and enhanced food security for local communities. However, there is increasing evidence that these investments often deprive affected communities of their access to land, with multiple negative impacts on livelihoods, food security and on the environment. This paper relies on empirical data to present an analysis of LSLI and food (in)security – crucially at the level of individuals in two villages in the Ruvuma region, Tanzania, over 10 years after the acquisition of village land within the Southern African Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). We introduce an innovative framework that permits an integration of a rights-based approach with the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework to explore smallholders’ livelihoods and experiences of food insecurity. Our paper demonstrates how this integration, along with attention we have given to the FAO’s PANTHER principles, adds the missing yet crucial dimension of accountability on the part of national governments as duty bearers. Our findings show that in the case of these two villages, the human rights principles of participation, accountability, transparency and empowerment are severely undermined, with women bearing the brunt in all these domains. This overall state of affairs is, we argue, due to inadequate monitoring and evaluation of LSLI processes themselves and low levels of commitment on the part of institutions in Tanzania to monitor the promises made by investors. This in turn demonstrates an accountability deficit on the part of duty-bearers within LSLIs, and limited capacity of affected community members to claim their rights. Individual food insecurity experience in the two communities correlates, among other characteristics, with lack of land ownership, employment and income-generating activities. The rights-based livelihoods framework applied in this study points to serious deficiencies in the LSLI model as presently endorsed in SAGCOT, and emphasises the fact that access to land in Tanzania is a precondition for the realisation of the right to adequate food and thus a critical requirement for achieving and maintaining food and nutrition security. We conclude by arguing that progressive coalitions within and beyond national states must devise policies and institutions that empower individuals and civil society actors to make demands on their governments to respect, protect and fulfil their obligations regarding the legally enforceable right to food.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI PEMENUHAN HAK MENDAPATKAN MAKANAN YANG LAYAK BAGI NARAPIDANA DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN KLAS 1 MAKASSAR

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manan Sailan ◽  
Irfana Lutia Ilyas
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Process ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Class I ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Unbalanced Diet ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to determine the fulfillment of the implementation of the right to get a decent meal for inmates in prisons Class I Makassar, obstacles faced in the implementation of the correctional institution fulfilling the right to get a decent meal for inmates at the Correctional Institution Class I Makassar. To achieve these objectives, the technique of collecting data through observation, interviews, and documentation. Data obtained from the research that was processed using descriptive and qualitative analysis to determine compliance with the implementation of the right to adequate food in prisonsJurnal Supremasi ISSN 1412-517X95Class I Makassar. The results showed that: 1. Implementation of the fulfillment of the right to adequate food for prisoners in institutions pemasyaraktan class 1 Makassar has not been feasible. Prisoners often complain the food they consume less palatable to various reasons including less attention to food hygiene, flavors that are less and less balanced nutritional meal. Later in the implementation process of the fulfillment of the right to get a decent meal for inmates there are some things that are not in accordance with the procedures of the Decree of the Minister of Law and Human Rights No. M.HH-01.PK.07.02 Year 2009 on Guidelines for the Implementation of Food for People in Prison Correctional Patronage and the State Prison (Rutan). So that the implementation of the fulfillment of the right to get a decent meal for inmates under Act No. 12 of 1995 concerning Corrections has not done well. 2. Constraints faced by not performing well fulfillment of the right to get a decent meal for inmates Penitentiary Class 1 Makassar such a low budget so the impact on infrastructure facilities and inadequate infrastructure. Unavailability cook expert in Penitentiary and nutritionists to assess directly the served meals nutritious or not, so the impact on the poor quality of food and nutrition unbalanced diet. Then the capacity of prisons is not balanced by the number of prisoners is increasing (over capacity), which resulted in the implementation of the fulfillment of the right to get a decent meal is not maximized.

scholarly journals Ensuring the right to food for indigenous children: a case study of stakeholder perspectives on policy options to ensure the rights of tamariki Māori to healthy food

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina McKerchar ◽  
Cameron Lacey ◽  
Gillian Abel ◽  
Louise Signal
Keyword(s):  
Food Policy ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Healthy Food Availability ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
The Right

Abstract Background The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child confirms a child’s right to adequate food, and to the highest attainable standard of health. For indigenous children, these rights are also recognised in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. However, Indigenous children endure higher rates of obesity and related health conditions than non-indigenous children, including in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). For indigenous tamariki (Māori children) in NZ, high levels of obesity are interconnected with high rates of food insecurity. Therefore there is a need for action. This study aimed to investigate policy options that would safeguard the rights of indigenous children to healthy food. We explored with key stakeholder’s policy options to ensure the rights of indigenous children to healthy food, through a case study of the rights of tamariki. Methods Interviews were conducted with 15 key stakeholders, with experience in research, development or delivery of policies to safeguard the rights of tamariki to healthy food. Iterative thematic analysis of the transcripts identified both deductive themes informed by Kaupapa Māori theory and literature on rights-based approaches and inductive themes from the interviews. Results The analysis suggests that to ensure the right to adequate food and to healthy food availability for tamariki, there needs to be: a comprehensive policy response that supports children’s rights; an end to child poverty; food provision and food policy in schools; local government policy to promote healthy food availability; and stronger Māori voices and values in decision-making. Conclusions The right to food for indigenous children, is linked to political and economic systems that are an outcome of colonisation. A decolonising approach where Māori voices and values are central within NZ policies and policy-making processes is needed. Given the importance of food to health, a broad policy approach from the NZ government to ensure the right to adequate food is urgent. This includes economic policies to end child poverty and specific strategies such as food provision and food policy in schools. The role of Iwi (tribes) and local governments needs to be further explored if we are to improve the right to adequate food within regions of NZ.

scholarly journals Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2017/10th Anniversary Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Claudio Schuftan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
World Food ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The World ◽  
Anniversary Issue

This review introduces the tenth anniversary issue of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, titled “The World Food Crisis: The Way Out” (which can be downloaded here in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese) It presents an alternative civil society perspective on the development of better food policy and better governance at local, national, regional and global levels. This year’s peer-reviewed Watch takes stock of the decade since the 2007/2008 major world food crisis and examines challenges and opportunities that can be anticipated in the near future. It features ten thematic essays on pivotal issues and developments around the human right to adequate food and nutrition such as trade rules, climate change and emergencies, complemented by supportive national and regional reports from all regions of the world --from Haiti to Somaliland, Yemen and France to Nepal. Authors and contributors include academics, public interest civil society, peasant organizations and indigenous peoples’ leaders.

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