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).
- Food shortages and the humanitarian reponse in southern Africa
- International Development Committee, UK, 2003
- In early 2002 southern Africa was gripped by food shortages. These were just one aspect of a complex humanitarian crisis, with impacts ranging across all sectors, from agriculture, to education and health. The trigger for the crisis w...
- Were IMF structural adjustment policies to blame for the Malawi food crisis?
- K. Owusu; F. Ng’ambi / World Development Movement, 2002
- This report from WDM details IMF enforced policies which it claims have undermined Malawi’s ability to feed its people. It blames the ongoing privatisation of the food production and distribution system (notably the Agricultural ...
- Food security challenged by liberalisation of trade
- L. Posner / Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2001
- This paper illustrates a sample of the day-to-day food-security challenges for agricultural workers in the face of liberalised trade policies. It calls for the human right to food to be integrated into the new negotiations on agricult...
- Livlihood vulnerability and institutional weakness combine to cause famine in Malawi
- S. Devereux / ActionAid International, 2002
- Action Aid report which examines the immediate causes and underlying vulnerabilities which led to the food crisis in Malawi in 2001 and which threatens to cause further famine in 2002. The report challenges a number of fallacies about...
- Intellectual property and the knowledge gap
- Oxfam, 2001
- Policy paper for presentation to the world social forum 2002. Provides a basic introduction to issues relating to IPRs, bilateral regulation, the TRIPS agreement and the impact of these policies on developing countries. The paper goes...
- What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
- Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human ...
- What is the Right to Food?
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- FAO publication in response to the 50th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration o Human Rights. It introduces the international legal context of the right to food that states that The right to food is a basic human ...
- Extracts from International and Regional Instruments and Declarations, as well as Some Other Authoritative Texts Addressing the Right to Food
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- This paper is issued as a legislative study by the FAO Legal Office. It contains a selection of extracts from international and regional instruments, as well as from some other authoritative texts, addressing the right to food. Extrac...
- Review of progress made in the definition of the right to adequate food in international law: States' obligations, international organizations' obligations and the role of the private sector.
- Asbjørn Eide / FAO Right to Food, 1999
- The paper places the effort to define and clarify the rights to food and nutrition within the wider framework of international law and relations based on the United Nations Charter. It examines the request made by the World Food Summi...
- Timeline of events related to the right to food
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- Chronology of events from 1948 to present, with links to full-texts of declarations, conference papers, etc.
- Food security challenged by liberalisation of trade
- L. Posner / Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2001
- This paper illustrates a sample of the day-to-day food-security challenges for agricultural workers in the face of liberalised trade policies. It calls for the human right to food to be integrated into the new negotiations on agricult...
- Livlihood vulnerability and institutional weakness combine to cause famine in Malawi
- S. Devereux / ActionAid International, 2002
- Action Aid report which examines the immediate causes and underlying vulnerabilities which led to the food crisis in Malawi in 2001 and which threatens to cause further famine in 2002. The report challenges a number of fallacies about...
- Intellectual property and the knowledge gap
- Oxfam, 2001
- Policy paper for presentation to the world social forum 2002. Provides a basic introduction to issues relating to IPRs, bilateral regulation, the TRIPS agreement and the impact of these policies on developing countries. The paper goes...
- What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
- Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human ...
- What is the Right to Food?
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- FAO publication in response to the 50th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration o Human Rights. It introduces the international legal context of the right to food that states that The right to food is a basic human ...
- Extracts from International and Regional Instruments and Declarations, as well as Some Other Authoritative Texts Addressing the Right to Food
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- This paper is issued as a legislative study by the FAO Legal Office. It contains a selection of extracts from international and regional instruments, as well as from some other authoritative texts, addressing the right to food. Extrac...
- Review of progress made in the definition of the right to adequate food in international law: States' obligations, international organizations' obligations and the role of the private sector.
- Asbjørn Eide / FAO Right to Food, 1999
- The paper places the effort to define and clarify the rights to food and nutrition within the wider framework of international law and relations based on the United Nations Charter. It examines the request made by the World Food Summi...
- Timeline of events related to the right to food
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- Chronology of events from 1948 to present, with links to full-texts of declarations, conference papers, etc.
- The right to food in theory and practice
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
- FAO (ed), contributions from different authors from UN, academia and NGO-sector. In this publication, the rights related to food are examined from both the human rights and the operational points of view. Distinguished human rights ex...
- NGOs and the right to adequate food - Hunger and malnutrition: the human rights approach
- M Windfuhr / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
- Chapter from the FAO publication "The right to food in theory and practice" (see separate entry) about the position of NGOs and Civil Society in the debate, containing extracts from a draft "Code of Conduct on the human right to adequ...
- 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
