Special legislation on the right to food and associated state obligations, whatever its exact form, can be valuable in many ways. It can clarify the roles and responsibilities of different agencies, define entitlements and recourse and monitoring mechanisms, and in general give direction to policy and underscore the prime importance of the right to food.

  In keeping with the holistic character of the rights-based approach, it is also vitally important to give legal protection to other human rights whose realization is interdependent with that of the right to food, such as the rights to information, freedom of assembly, education, health and safe water. Poor people's access to resources is crucial: if vulnerable groups and those discriminated against are to be empowered to achieve the realization of their right to food, they must be assigned clear and enforceable rights to own, inherit, and trade productive resources.