The Right to Food
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UN right to food expert: "A crisis is a time for action, not the time for negotiating new rules" (summary interview)

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UN right to food expert: "A crisis is a time for action, not the time for negotiating new rules"

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The world is not on track to eradicate hunger and poverty by 2030

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Togo: New School Feeding Law advances the fulfilment of the human right to adequate food

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.

The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has the physical 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). 

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