The Right to Food

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Right to Food Study, 2014.
The present comparative analysis was undertaken to determine to what extent a human rights focus was reflected in the design and implementation practices of the Special Programme on Food Security of FAO in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, for the purpose of promoting human rights based practices in all food security and nutrition programmes in Central America.

Available in: English Español
Keywords: Assessment - Impact analysis - Situation analysis - Advocacy - Indicators - Institutional capacity - Institutional policy

Right to Food Publication, 2013.
This publication documents the most important elements from the Global Strategic Framework that support and illustrate the systematic mainstreaming of the right to adequate food in this consensually adopted global framework. It also offers important suggestions to stakeholders on how to translate this global consensus into practice at the national level. 

Keywords: Global studies - Advocacy - Food security and nutrition - Institutional policy

Right to Food Handbooks 1, 2014.
This first handbook of the group devoted to legislation presents the right to food within the international framework of human rights, especially the ICESCR and other relevant international instruments, as well as the different forms of constitutional recognition at country level.

Keywords: Educational tools - Training - Legal issues - Entitlements - International law - National legislation - Obligations - Recourse mechanisms

Right to Food Handbooks 2, 2014.
The purpose of this handbook is to provide practical information and guidelines for national legislators and individual parties or groups interested in order to improve the process of developing a framework law for the right to food.

Keywords: Educational tools - Training - Legal issues - Entitlements - International law - National legislation - Obligations - Recourse mechanisms

Right to Food Handbooks 3, 2014.
This handbook presents the process to be followed for the revision of sectoral legislation, since it may affect various aspects of the right to food. The purpose of this revision is to ensure that the legal framework of the country is favourable for the progressive realization of the right to food.

Keywords: Educational tools - Training - Legal issues - Entitlements - International law - National legislation - Obligations - Recourse mechanisms

Right to Food Handbooks 4, 2014.
This handbook, introductory to the group of those which are devoted to the process of monitoring the right to food, presents the conceptual basis for monitoring centered and based on a human rights approach. It also provides a description of the methodological and analytical agenda for monitoring.

Keywords: Educational tools - Training - Monitoring - Analysis - Indicators - Institutional capacity - Targets - Methodologies

Right to Food Handbooks 5, 2014.
This handbook presents the basic process to be followed for monitoring policies, programmes and projects aimed at the right to food, starting from the components that distinguish it from a conventional monitoring framework: the basic content of the right to food, the State obligations and the principles of human rights.

Keywords: Educational tools - Training - Monitoring - Analysis - Indicators - Institutional capacity - Targets - Methodologies

Right to Food Handbooks 6, 2014.
This third handbook on monitoring the right to food provides detail on the information needed for monitoring, information gathering methods, information systems and databases for monitoring as well as on dissemination of information.

Keywords: Educational tools - Training - Monitoring - Indicators - Institutional capacity - Targets - Methodologies

Right to Food Handbooks 7, 2014.
This handbook provides practical information and tools for conducting a right to food assessment as a first step in a strategy to ensure this right and to take the appropriate measures accordingly with the obligation of progressive realization of this right.

Keywords: Assessment - Food security analysis - Global studies - Impact analysis - Public budget analysis - Situation analysis - Educational tools - Training

Right to Food Handbooks 8, 2014.
This handbook provides information on some of the aspects in which the public budget plays an important role for the realization of the right to food. It also addresses the implementation of advocacy actions based on an analysis of government budgets.

Keywords: Assessment - Food security analysis - Global studies - Impact analysis - Public budget analysis - Situation analysis - Educational tools - Training

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