Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2017/10th 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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The Securitisation of Food Security in Colombia, 1970–2010

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x1300117x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 641-668 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

ENZO NUSSIO ◽

CORINNE A. PERNET

Keyword(s):

Land Reform ◽

Local Governments ◽

Food Policy ◽

Food Sovereignty ◽

Free Market ◽

World Food ◽

Food Crisis ◽

National Priority ◽

The World ◽

The Government

AbstractAfter the world food crisis of the early 1970s, food policies became a ‘national priority’ for Colombian development. Colombia was the first country to implement the multi-sectoral approach proposed by international organisations. However, in the past 30 years Colombian governments have presented nutrition as a minor health issue. During the recent world food crisis, the government insisted that Colombia was one of the most food-secure countries in the world. In seemingly similar circumstances, why was food policy made a priority in the 1970s and not in the new millennium? We address this question with the help of securitisation theory. We argue that in the 1970s, the government successfully securitised the food issue in the context of a reduction of external food aid and a failed land reform. Recent national governments (as opposed to some local governments) have had little interest in a securitising move since the related food sovereignty discourses threaten their free market policies.

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

African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development ◽

10.18697/ajfand.48.10100 ◽

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.

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Chapter 6. The World Food Crisis and the Right to Adequate Food

Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations ◽

10.9783/9780812204841.130 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 130-156

Keyword(s):

World Food ◽

Food Crisis ◽

Adequate Food ◽

The World ◽

The Right

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RIGHT TO FOOD FOR ALL IN INDIA: MYTH OR REALITY

Towards Excellence ◽

10.37867/te100222 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 178-189

Author(s):

Grishma Soni ◽

Prachi V. Motiyani

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽

Right To Life ◽

Human Right ◽

Right To Food ◽

Complex Issue ◽

The People ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

The Right ◽

The Impact

As we all know that food is the basic Human necessity, without which no one can survive. Making food available for all the people in the world is now days becoming a complex issue. The availability food is decreasing as a result of increase in population that will result in food insecurity or malnutrition. Indian constitution interprets the right to food as part of right to life, which is fundamental human right. Change in climate, the impact of globalization, Global Warming, Carbon dioxide emission from fuel etc. also affects the right to food of many people. This paper examines the situation prevailing in India and looks into the obligations and initiatives by the government of India to ensure Right to Food and make suggestions for addressing the issue and examines the possible way to make the scheme workable to achieve food security.

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The world food crisis

Nutrition & Food Science ◽

10.1108/eb058607 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 5-7

Author(s):

Georg Borgstrom

Keyword(s):

World Food ◽

Food Crisis ◽

The World

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Aproximación a la regulación y contenido del derecho a una alimentación adecuada

Revista de Derecho de la UNED (RDUNED) ◽

10.5944/rduned.22.2018.22274 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 183 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Juan Manuel Goig Martínez

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

National Level ◽

Human Right ◽

Public Authorities ◽

Right To Food ◽

The Public ◽

Guiding Principle ◽

Derechos Humanos ◽

Adequate Food ◽

The Right

La alimentación adecuada constituye un derecho humano. Así lo han reconocido oficialmente la gran mayoría de los Tratados Internacionales sobre derechos humanos. Pero existe una gran diferencia entre que un Estado reconozca oficialmente la alimentación como un derecho fundamental en su constitución, o lo haga como un principio rector, puesto que ello dotará al derecho a la alimentación adecuada de una mayor protección, o lo convertirá en un principio de actuación de los poderes públicos. Se puede exigir a los gobiernos garantizar el ejercicio efectivo del derecho a la alimentación de conformidad con las disposiciones constitucionales para otros derechos humanos. Pero, la capacidad de la invocación indirecta de otros derechos humanos para lograr la protección efectiva del derecho a la alimentación en el plano nacional dependerá, en definitiva, de la interpretación jurídica que se haga de la Constitución.Adequate food is a human right. Thus the vast majority of treaties have officially recognized it human rights. But there is a big difference between that a State officially recognizes food as a fundamental right in the Constitution, or do it as a guiding principle, since this will provide the right to adequate food of greater protection, or the It will become a principle of action of the public authorities. You may require Governments to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to food in accordance with the constitutional provisions for other human rights. But the indirect invocation of other human rights capacity to achieve effective protection of the right to food at the national level will depend, ultimately, of the legal interpretation that is made of the Constitution.

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