Food and Human Rights Development: Legal and Institutional Dimensions and Selected Topics, Vol. 1

The right to adequate food is firmly established in international human rights law. It is among those most cited in solemn declarations and most violated in practice. The book is the first of its kind on the right to food as a human right. It is not a textbook but is intended to inform and stimulate further debate among scholars, policy-makers and practitioners and activists alike, on some of the major issues of concern in applying a right-based approach to alleviating food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition, and in promoting access to and consumption of nutritionally adequate,safe and culturally acceptable food on a sustainable basis for all. Besides introducing the concept of the right to food and elaborating on its theoretical basis and meaning in development, this book provides several recent examples from work both at the national and international level to apply this right in practical situations, and with a special view to how to go about identifying the corresponding obligations of states and complementary duties and responsibilities of non-state actors and international organisations. Finally, several chapters address the right to food under special circumstances and for special groups needing particular attention. With contributions of: Wenche Barth Eide, Uwe Kracht, Hartwig de Haen, Bertie Ramcharan, Margret Vidar, Margit Tveiten, Asbjørn Eide, Dan Banik, Aparna Bhatt, Sibonile Khoza, Charlotte McClain, Joel Aliro Omara, Nathan Byamukuma, Ousmane Oumarou Sidibe, Flavio Valente, Abdulai Jalloh, Sally-Anne Way, Fabio Sabatini, Arne Oshaug, Michael Windfuhr, Siri Damman, A.Byaruhanga Rukooko, Elisabet Helsing, Ida-Eline Engh, George Kent, Hans Morten Haugen and Lawrence HaddadEide, Wenche Barth is the author of 'Food and Human Rights Development: Legal and Institutional Dimensions and Selected Topics, Vol. 1', published 2005 under ISBN 9789050953856 and ISBN 9050953859.