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Group of children eating lunch at a nursery school in Ranaketugama. FAO/G. Bizzarri. Sri Lanka. 1994.
Effective Action: Strategy and Coordination

  Only through effective rights-oriented policies and coordinated rights-based strategies can duty-bearers fulfil their obligations to enable rights-holders to feed themselves.

  The sincerity of a state's commitment to the progressive realization of the human right to food can be observed in its development and implementation of policies. Each state party should adopt a national strategy to ensure food and nutrition security for all, and formulate policies and benchmarks accordingly:

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  The Right to food briefs:     Putting it into Practice
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