The Right to Adequate Food in Emergencies

The Right to Adequate Food in Emergencies
Author: Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251048856

In natural disaster or violent conflict situations, the right to food of innocent people is often endangered. Disruption in food production and distribution, looting and blockades, destruction of crops and mining of agricultural land are some of the common problems which occur. This study examines the international legal framework to protect the right to adequate food in emergencies, exploring human rights, economic and environmental aspects. Issues discussed include: principles of humanitarian access, duties of the international community, interventions by the UN Security Council, crimes against humanity and the ban on deliberate starvation of civilians, and standards of food related aid.

The Right to Food

The Right to Food
Author: Katarina Tomaševski
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900448230X

Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food

Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food
Author: Anne C. Bellows
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2015-12-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134738730

This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. Three conditions arising from these disconnects are discussed: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women’s human rights, as well as their private and public contributions to food and nutrition security for all; many women’s experience of their and their children’s simultaneously independent and intertwined subjectivities during pregnancy and breastfeeding being poorly understood in human rights law and abused by poorly-regulated food and nutrition industry marketing practices; and the neoliberal economic system’s interference both with the autonomy and self-determination of women and their communities and with the strengthening of sustainable diets based on democratically governed local food systems. The book calls for a social movement-led reconceptualization of the right to adequate food toward incorporating gender, women’s rights, and nutrition, based on the food sovereignty framework.

Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right

Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right
Author: United Nations Centre for Human Rights
Publisher: New York : United Nations
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1989
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Author: Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2007-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230589502

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.

High-Energy, Nutrient-Dense Emergency Relief Food Product

High-Energy, Nutrient-Dense Emergency Relief Food Product
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2002-05-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 030908315X

The present study was conducted by an ad hoc subcommittee of the Committee on Military Nutrition Research. The Subcommittee on Technical Specifications for a High-Energy Emergency Relief Ration was established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine in response to a request from USAID and DOD to develop technical specifications for a product for use in food relief after natural disasters or other emergency situations around the world. The specifications are to be used by both agencies in their calls for bids from U.S. food manufacturers to supply such a product.

The Right to Food

The Right to Food
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789251041772

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International Food Law

International Food Law
Author: Cinzia Caporale
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 940351812X

estation, habitat destruction and zoonoses; food naming and labelling; and food risk management. Throughout there is reference to an abundance of legislation, treaties, conventions, and case law at domestic, regional, and international levels, with particular attention to European, US, and World Trade Organization law and the work of the FAO. The book clearly demonstrates the necessity for reform of the global system of food production in the direction of a more sustainable and environment-friendly model. In its authoritative discussion of the relations among fields of law that are rarely discussed together – food law and the environment, food law and human rights, food law and animal welfare – this collection of chapters will prove a valuable resource both for officials working in food governance and security and for lawyers and scholars concerned with environmental management, sustainable development, and human rights around the world.