The Right to Food

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Right to Food Handbooks 9, 2014.
This handbook provides an overview of who is who and what his/her role is in the realization of the human right to food. This information enhances the possibilities of coordination and collaboration between the different actors as well as accountability.

Keywords: Capacity development - Advocacy - Curriculum - Educational tools - Empowerment - Training

Right to Food Handbooks 10, 2014.
The purpose of this handbook devoted to training is to offer guidance on the appropriate way to implement training processes on the right to food by adapting them to the different groups.

Keywords: Capacity development - Advocacy - Curriculum - Educational tools - Empowerment - Training

Right to Food Assessment, 2013.
This publication presents coherent and systematic information and analysis about: the current food and nutrition security situation in the CARICOM Region and in CARICOM Member States, and the relevant legal, policy and institutional environments in the Region with respect to the protection and realization of the right to food. The information and analysis are expected to translate into concrete follow-up actions and can serve to monitor over time right to food conditions in the Region.

Available in: English
Keywords: Assessment - Food security analysis - Capacity development - Advocacy - Legal issues - International law - National legislation - Monitoring - Analysis - Policy - Food security and nutrition
Available in: Español
Keywords: Capacity development - Training - Food security and nutrition

Reference Guide, 2013.
This reference guide is addressed to technical officers at district and sub-county level in Uganda who are involved in preparing Higher and Lower Local Government Development Plans which as mandated must address food and nutrition security as a cross-cutting concern. The guide responds to the capacity needs of the officers who may lack the necessary tools to prepare well-articulated and justified food and nutrition security plans. It also gives direction on how to meaningfully apply human rights, with specific reference to the right to food, principles at sub-national level.

Available in: English
Keywords: Food security analysis - Empowerment - Institutional capacity - Policy - Coordination - Food security and nutrition - Strategy

Right to Food Assessment, 2013.
This publication presents the results of an assessment of the right to food in the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). Its main objective consists in assessing the policy, legal, and institutional framework related to the FNS and the right to food in CPLP countries as a way to feed into the Regional Strategy for Food and Nutrition Security.

Available in: English Português
Keywords: Assessment - Food security analysis - Impact analysis - Situation analysis - Analysis - Indicators - Institutional capacity - Coordination - Food security and nutrition - Strategy

Right to Food Publication, 2013.
This Guidance Note is a practical tool for practitioners to integrate the right to food into food and nutrition security (FNS) programmes. It explains key concepts related to the right to food and, particularly, examines four main entry points for FSN programmes: responsibilities of stakeholders, legal aspects, monitoring, and claims mechanisms. Specific examples and cases illustrate the main messages.

Available in: English français Español
Keywords: Legal issues - National legislation - Obligations - Recourse mechanisms - Monitoring - Analysis - Indicators - Policy - Coordination - Food security and nutrition - Strategy

Right to Food Policy Brief No. 3, 2012.
The Issues Brief “Social Protection and the Right to Food” provides guidance to decision makers on applying a human rights-based approach to social protection programmes since they significantly contribute to the progressive realization of the right to food.

Available in: English Español
Keywords: Situation analysis - Policy - Food security and nutrition

Right to Food Study, 2012.
This study, developed jointly with the Geneva academy of humanitarian law and human rights, aims to provide guidance on how the right to adequate food can best be integrated into the two frameworks ”The Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF)” and “the UN Comprehensive Framework for Action (CFA)”.

Available in: English
Keywords: Assessment - Situation analysis - Capacity development - Legal issues - Monitoring - Policy - Food security and nutrition

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