The Right to Food

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Right to Food Study, 2009.
This Right to Food Study aims to clarify the relevance of the right to food in combating HIV/AIDS and demonstrates that there are good reasons for supporting the integration of the right to food into prevention and treatment programmes to make them truly effective.

Available in: English
Keywords: Empowerment - International law - Obligations - Policy - Food security and nutrition

Right to Food Study, 2009.
This paper focuses on the analysis of the right to food from an indigenous peoples’ perspective and addresses the main issues of concern to indigenous peoples that crosscut the right to food. Furthermore, it analyses how right to food is relevant to indigenous peoples and how the implementation of the right to food can benefit them.

Available in: English
Keywords: Situation analysis - Empowerment - Legal issues

Joint Brief, 2009.
This joint brief “Right to Food and Indigenous Peoples” explains the legal foundation of the indigenous peoples’ right to food, the right to food as a collective right including the cultural dimension as well as how the right to food can benefit indigenous peoples.

Available in: English
Keywords: Advocacy - Training - Legal issues - International law - Policy - Food security and nutrition

Right to Food Study, 2009.
This study provides an introduction to the right to food and human rights principles in international law, explores the relationship between international fisheries instruments and the right to food and seeks to identify components that are considered important for the implementation of the right to food in fisheries legislation.

Available in: English
Keywords: Legal issues - International law - Food security and nutrition
Available in: English
Keywords: Advocacy - Food security and nutrition

Report, 2008.
This report provides an overview of the policy, legislative and institutional frameworks for food security in Tajikistan, and makes recommendations as to how such frameworks can be improved.

Available in: English Русский
Keywords: Assessment - Food security analysis - Situation analysis - Legal issues - National legislation - Food security and nutrition

Right to Food Study, 2008.
How much of women's hunger and food insecurity is a matter of health alone and not one of life, survival and development? This is just one of the very important issues addressed in this Right to Food Study.

Available in: English
Keywords: Legal issues - International law - Food security and nutrition

Right to Food Study, 2008.
This Right to Food study examines the impact of biofuel production on the
enjoyment of the human right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger.

Available in: English
Keywords: Policy - Economics - Food security and nutrition - Strategy

Right to Food Study, 2008.
Through a conceptual analysis based on international treaties and instruments and through two country studies, this study explores the relationship between human rights, particularly the right to adequate food, and access to natural resources with specific focus on land.

Available in: English français Español
Keywords: Impact analysis - Empowerment - Legal issues - Policy

Paper, 2007.
Despite significant growth in global food production, 854 million people, nearly one-sixth of the world’s population, still suffer from chronic hunger. This publication focuses on the right to food and the lessons learned in Brazil and illustrates the eight steps to realize the right to Food in a Brazilian perspective.

Available in: English
Keywords: Capacity development - Advocacy - Educational tools - Empowerment - Legal issues - Monitoring - Food security and nutrition

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