The obligation to ensure that national laws respect, protect and fulfil the right to food naturally goes beyond ensuring that sectoral legislation does not impede people's access to adequate food. If the law is truly to support the progressive realization of the right to food, there is a strong case for this orientation to be explicitly affirmed, whether in the constitution or a bill of rights or in specific laws.

  Worldwide, over 20 countries have a mention of the right to food in their constitutions.