Publications
Social protection and an enabling environment for the right to adequate food
06/12/2014
Right to Food Thematic Study 5, 2014. This thematic study takes a retrospective glance at social protection over a span of a decade from 2004 to 2014. It presents developments from...
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Natural resources governance and the right to adequate food
07/12/2014
Right to Food Thematic Study 4, 2014. This thematic study explores the links between the right to food and natural resources governance. It covers a range of issues of which access...
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Legal developments in the progressive realization of the right to adequate food
08/12/2014
Right to Food Thematic Study 3, 2014. Legal developments in the progressive realization of the right to adequate food thematic study explores the significant legal advances of the right to food...
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Institutional framework for the right to adequate food
09/12/2014
Right to Food Thematic Study 2, 2014. This study shows how an institutional framework can efficiently support the realization of the right to adequate food and – mainly with the guidance...
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The current status of the right to adequate food in food security and nutrition policy designs
10/12/2014
Right to Food Thematic Study 1, 2014. This Thematic Study reviewed the existing food security and nutrition (FSN) policy documents to determine the extent to which the designs of these policies...
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The Right to Food: Past commitment, current obligation, further action for the future – A Ten-Year Retrospective on the Right to Food Guidelines
11/12/2014
Right to Food Publication, 2014. The Right to Food: Past commitment, current obligation, further action for the future – A Ten-Year Retrospective on the Right to Food Guidelines analyzes some of...
Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of the national food security
12/12/2014
Right to Food GuidelinesAdopted by the 127th Session of the FAO Council, November 2004. The objective of the Voluntary Guidelines is to provide practical guidance to States in their implementation of...
Assessment on the Right to Food in the ECOWAS region
03/02/2015
Right to Food Assessment, 2014. West African States have ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and have therefore committed to realize the fundamental right to be...
Integrating the Right to Adequate Food in National Food and Nutrition Security Policies and Programmes: Practical Approaches to Policy and Programme Analysis
05/02/2015
Right to Food Methodological Toolbox - Book 6, 2014. This volume outlines a simple and practical way to analyse the design and implementation of food and nutrition security (FNS) policies and...
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Report of the sub-regional workshop on strengthening the legal frameworks for social protection in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados
28/05/2015
Workshop report, 2015. This report presents the key achievements and the issues discussed during the sub-regional workshop on strengthening the legal frameworks for social protection in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean...
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Current state of social protection legislation in Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States from a human rights perspective
29/05/2015
Right to Food Study, 2015. The primary goal of this study is to present a comparative analysis, from a human rights perspective, of the current state of legislation and programmes related...
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Review of the legislative framework and jurisprudence concerning the right to adequate food in Nepal
26/06/2015
Right to Food Assessment, 2014. The Review of the legislative framework and jurisprudence concerning the right to adequate food in Nepal discusses overarching aspects of Nepalese law and jurisprudence dealing with...
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Cluster evaluation of two right to food projects
30/06/2015
Project evaluation, 2015 FAO´s work on the Right to Food is mainly supported through voluntary contributions by FAO Member States. The Governments of Spain and Norway as well as FAO are...
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Spaces for dialogue as a strategy to integrate the right to food in rural municipalities of Latin America: Recommendations for establishment and strengthening
15/07/2015
Right to Food Study, 2015. The main objective of the document is to provide guidance to authorities and municipal officers in establishing and/or strengthening spaces for dialogue between municipal governments and...
Ten debates on right to food and social protection: Learning from India's experience
05/10/2015
Briefs for debates on the right to food, 2015. This set of briefs presents the major debates emerged during the development and adoption of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013),...
State food provisioning as social protection: Debating India's national food security law
06/10/2015
Right to Food Study, 2015. This publication provides an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds...
The rights to social protection and adequate food
11/03/2016
Legal Paper, 2016 The interface between the rights to social protection and to adequate food lies primarily in the ‘transfers’ that enable individuals to have physical and financial access to the...
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Analysis of the food security and nutrition legislation in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
21/03/2016
Legal Study, 2015. The Latin American countries have been at the forefront of the legal developments of the right to food and Central America is one of the regions that has...
Report of the South Asian Dialogue on the Right to Food
20/05/2016
Workshop report, 2016. This report includes all debates, presentations, list of commitments and plan of action which took place and were agreed upon during the South Asian Dialogue on the Right...
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The Right to Adequate Food and the Right to Decent Work: Joint work in rural areas
28/06/2016
Brief, 2016. Developed jointly by the Right to Food Team and the Decent Rural Employment Team, this Brief argues that consolidating the synergies between the two rights through a human rights-based...
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