scholarly journals 14. Climate adaptation limits and the right to food security

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Wallimann-Helmer ◽  
L.M. Bouwer ◽  
C. Huggel ◽  
S. Juhola ◽  
R. Mechler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Adaptation Limits ◽  
The Right

Ensuring Food Security

2017 ◽  
pp. 221-247
Author(s):  
Rajesh Chakrabarti ◽  
Kaushiki Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Election Manifesto ◽  
The Government ◽  
Draft Bill ◽  
The Right

This chapter narrates the saga of the Right to Food Security. Briefly pointing out various prior food movements, the chapter dates the movement to 2001 in Rajasthan with a writ petition at the Supreme Court. The SC took up the issue with surprising enthusiasm issuing order after order to force the government to comply with reports and action. The government, while not antagonistic, was apathetic. Encouraged by the court orders the activists gathered under a single banner of Right to Food Campaign in 2004 and built on the campaign in court as well as on the ground. Political support finally came when the issue entered UPA’s election manifesto in 2009. Post UPA victory, the NAC submitted its draft bill in 2010 but a substantially altered bill finally got enacted in 2013. The movement reflects a combination of Punctuated Equilibrium Framework and Advocacy Coalition Framework.

Part II Predominant Security Challenges and International Law, Economic and Resource Security, Ch.27 Food Security

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elver Hilal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Fundamental Rights And Freedoms ◽  
The Right

This chapter focuses on food security. Although ‘food security’ is not a legal concept and does not impose rights or responsibilities, it is a necessary precondition to the full enjoyment of the right to food. The right to food is enshrined in article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an integral part of the right to an adequate standard of living. As this right is indivisible, interrelated, and interdependent with all other fundamental rights and freedoms, it is ultimately essential for a secure, safe, and harmonious world. The chapter demonstrates that severe food insecurity continues to inflict massive casualties and create and prolong conflicts and emergencies despite well-established rules of international law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law. It then looks at the international law principles protecting food security with the aim to diffuse emergency situations that create instability, inequality, and unrest, including those resulting from conflicts and natural disasters. The chapter provides suggestions for enforcing and enhancing existing laws and for the adoption of a new international convention which will set out clear duties and obligations for States and non-State actors with a view to eliminating food insecurity and preventing violations of the right to food for a safer, more secure world.

Soil Protection and the Right to Food for a Better Common Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver C. Ruppel
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
International Law ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Soil Protection ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
The Right ◽  
Common Future

This article examines – from an international law perspective – the interface between soil protection, land degradation neutrality, food security, climate governance and trade in agriculture. Although these different spheres are most often viewed in isolation, an attempt is made to analyse them more holistically with the aim of identifying the connectedness for the purpose of finding some strategies for a better common future.

Governing Food Security: Law, Politics and the Right to Food - By Otto Hospes and Irene Hadiprayitno

2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-599
Author(s):  
Debra Rose Wilson ◽  
William A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Reconciling human rights and the environment: a proposal to integrate the right to food with sustainable development in the 2030 development agenda

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Ana García Juanatey
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This article examines the utility of the human rights-based approach (HRBA) in tackling environmental challenges that face achievement of the right to food in coming decades. So far, such approach has been quite useful in the consideration of equity, discrimination and accountability issues. Nevertheless, the HRBA’s utility to tackle the effects of environmental degradation, natural resources depletion and climate change on food security is not that clear, as human rights law and practice has evolved in parallel with environmental concerns until recently. Therefore, this article poses the following question: is the human rights-based approach to food security sufficient to address the environmental problems and constraints that infringe directly on the right to food implementation? And, how can we integrate the needs of future generations in current human rights-based policies and deal with the tradeoffs between present and future needs? This article examines how last years’ international legal literature has portrayed the linkages between the environment and human rights, principally in relation to the right to food. Moreover, it also intends to explore possible avenues of convergence, pinpointing opportunities to connect the right to food and sustainable development in the context of the 2030 Agenda. In more concrete terms, it suggests that a greater integration between the right to food and a set of principles of sustainable development law may open new avenues for research and advocacy on the right to food.Keywords: Human Rights, Environment, Right to Food, Human Rights- Based Approach, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Law

scholarly journals Ensuring food security of indigenous peoples in Latin America by the UN food and agricultural organization (FAO)

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-871
Author(s):  
Anita Z. Rakhman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Agricultural Organization

The activities of the United Nations in the 21st century, as in the earlier period, are undoubtedly devoted to protection and promotion of human rights. It promotes the realization of fundamental human rights through specialized agencies in various fields taking in account concerns and needs of vulnerable groups of population, in particular indigenous peoples. The World Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), in its turn, develops policies and implements strategies and programs to guarantee food security and the right to food to aboriginal people around the world, including in Latin America.

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