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Legal framework
Access to adequate food is a universal human right. Individuals should be able to claim this right and States are accountable for the elaboration and implementation of policies for the immediate and progressive realization of the right to food. The following guidelines indicate how this process can be achieved, through measures ranging from education and awareness raising to the establishment of an appropriate legal system.
Institutions; legal framework; education; monitoring and indicators; human rights
photo Directive 5 Institutions
    Guideline 5 stresses the importance of public institutions and the usefulness of having a specific institution to coordinate application of the Voluntary Guidelines.
Directive 7 Legal framework
    Guideline 7 focuses on legal measures and instruments for direct implementation of the progressive realization of the right to adequate food and judicial remedies when this right is violated. 		photo
photo Directive 8 Access to resources and assets
    Guideline 8 informs States how to apply the obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the right to adequate food (obligations assumed by States Parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights). States should ensure sustainable and non-discriminatory access to natural resources, if need be through land reform. This guideline puts forward recommendations on labour, land, water, genetic resources, sustainability and services.
Directive 11 Education and awareness raising
    Guideline 11 seeks to strengthen education and training opportunities, especially for girls and women, to support sustainable development and to integrate human rights into school curricula. In addition, officials and members of civil society should be trained to participate in the progressive realization of the right to food. 		photo
photo Directive 17 Monitoring, indicators and benchmarks
    Guideline 17 advocates the establishment of systems to monitor and evaluate the realization of the right to food, especially for vulnerable groups, including women, children and the elderly.
Directive 18 National human rights institutions
    Guideline 18 suggests that national human rights institutions should be independent and autonomous and should include the right to food in their mandates. States that do not have such institutions are encouraged to establish them. 		photo