Right to food
The right to food under international law and in national constitutions and legislation; approaches to the effective implementation of right to food legislation; and how right to food fits with other national and international frameworks for addressing hunger (eg. World Food Summit and MDGs).
- Regenerating locally controlled food systems for food sovereignty
- M. Pimbert / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
- In this book, the author focuses on the need to transform knowledge and ways of knowing to regenerate locally controlled food systems. The author discusses how the production of ecologically-literate and socially-just knowledge...
- Challenges and benefits of complementary feeding in childhood
- United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003
- This issue focuses on the importance of complementary feeding in childhood and its role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It offers an up-to-date and multi-disciplinary overview on the challenges and benefits of co...
- Corruption challenges Indian’s right to food
- G. Cheriyan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
- If production of food grains in India is ample, then why does India account for a third of the world’s hungry? This paper reviews initiatives by the Government of India to provide food security to its citizens, and it explores wh...
- People have a right to nutritional foods, not just freedom from hunger
- P. Webb; A. Thorne-Lyman / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
- If death from crisis-related famines is typically the result of individuals’ ability to purchase available food, as Amartya Sen and others have frequently argued, solutions should address incomes and markets to enable populations...
- Food insecurity persists because of governance and policy failures
- J.-C. Le Vallée / Food Security Node, Development Gateway, 2006
- Political will for food security should be given the highest priority, yet in practice only gets modest attention. This paper attempts to address the gaps that exist. Specifically, this paper looks at: recent developmen...
- Speeches by Southern leaders on the topic of hunger
- South Centre, 2005
- This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on Hunger, with contributions from various Southern leaders including speeches from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President...
- Safety nets and transfer programmes as a means of delivering the right to food
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003
- This note explores the role that social safety nets, and more specifically food safety nets, can play in realising the right to food. The brief: presents the concept of food security and the obligations of the State wit...
- Destruction of ecosystems and linkages with food security
- R. Künnemann; S. Epal-Ratjen / FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 2006
- This report includes three studies which addresses violations of future generations' right to food. The publication serves two purposes: taking stock of natural resources and ecosystems vital to food production and of t...
- Reinforcing the right to local food systems
- International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
- The authors of this book believe that the search for a more ‘liveable world’ must find alternatives to the corporate capture of food, land, biodiversity and the environment. This needs to build on the potential offered by mo...
- Adopting a rights-based approach to food security
- V. Ask / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2006
- The concept of a 'rights-based approach' is widely understood as integrating norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies and processes of development. The norms and standards are t...
- Corruption challenges Indian’s right to food
- G. Cheriyan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
- If production of food grains in India is ample, then why does India account for a third of the world’s hungry? This paper reviews initiatives by the Government of India to provide food security to its citizens, and it explores wh...
- People have a right to nutritional foods, not just freedom from hunger
- P. Webb; A. Thorne-Lyman / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
- If death from crisis-related famines is typically the result of individuals’ ability to purchase available food, as Amartya Sen and others have frequently argued, solutions should address incomes and markets to enable populations...
- Food insecurity persists because of governance and policy failures
- J.-C. Le Vallée / Food Security Node, Development Gateway, 2006
- Political will for food security should be given the highest priority, yet in practice only gets modest attention. This paper attempts to address the gaps that exist. Specifically, this paper looks at: recent developmen...
- Speeches by Southern leaders on the topic of hunger
- South Centre, 2005
- This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on Hunger, with contributions from various Southern leaders including speeches from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President...
- Safety nets and transfer programmes as a means of delivering the right to food
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003
- This note explores the role that social safety nets, and more specifically food safety nets, can play in realising the right to food. The brief: presents the concept of food security and the obligations of the State wit...
- Destruction of ecosystems and linkages with food security
- R. Künnemann; S. Epal-Ratjen / FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 2006
- This report includes three studies which addresses violations of future generations' right to food. The publication serves two purposes: taking stock of natural resources and ecosystems vital to food production and of t...
- Reinforcing the right to local food systems
- International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
- The authors of this book believe that the search for a more ‘liveable world’ must find alternatives to the corporate capture of food, land, biodiversity and the environment. This needs to build on the potential offered by mo...
- Adopting a rights-based approach to food security
- V. Ask / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2006
- The concept of a 'rights-based approach' is widely understood as integrating norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies and processes of development. The norms and standards are t...
- Food sovereignty approach implies agrarian reform
- International NGO/CSO Planning Committee, 2006
- Through an analysis of the right to adequate food and the right to land, this civil society report, argued that achieving food sovereignty requires agrarian reform. The paper therefore calls for a new redistributive land reform that r...
- Furthering the food sovereignty approach
- M. Windfuhr; J. Jonsén / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2005
- Food Sovereignty is a policy framework for the governance of food and agriculture, which addresses the problems of hunger and poverty in a new and innovative way. This paper illustrates how the Food Sovereignty policy framework has de...
- Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
- The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children. CPAG works to produce evidence about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families. It examines how Government policies affect children and families. CPAG publishes reports, makes submissions and conducts small-scale researc...
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
