The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has the physicall and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. 

– General Comment 12 (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, CESCR, 1999).

Generally understood as the right to feed oneself in dignity, the right to adequate food is a long-standing international human right to which many countries are committed. Over the last decades, a number of countries have developed and implemented constitutional amendments, national laws, strategies, policies and programmes that aim at the fulfilment for all of the right to food.