Dimensions
What are the dimensions of the international right to adequate food?
Adequacy, Availability, Accessibility, and Sustainability.
Where can we find the Right to Food in the UDHR?
Article 25
What are the three obligations of governments vis-a-vis the right to food?
To respect, to protect, and to fulfill
Why did the Right to Food emerge at the 1996 World Food Summit?
Number of hungry people not reduced by technological advances. Global recognition that hunger results from unaccountable governments (not lack of food).
Michael Fakhri
What dimension refers to food that is safe from adverse substances?
Adequacy
Where can we find a detailed explanation of what the right to food is?
General Comment No. 12
What is an example of a significant legal case on the right to food that was discussed by Olivier De Schutter in his video?
In India, the local governments were not using food reserves in spite of significant hunger due to high prices. India Supreme Court ruled that local government release reserves. School meal program established.
In Nepal, Supreme Court ruled that food aid needed to be delivered in all parts of the country.
Explain the content of one thematic report by the current UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
Various
What dimension refers to food deserts?
Physical accessibility
What body adopted General Comment No. 12? And when?
The Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in 1999
When was the mandate of the Un Special Rapporteur on the right to food established?
2000
What dimension deals with food for future generations?
Sustainability
Where we can find detailed guidelines for governments on the implementation of the right to food? Hint: this instrument (with a very long name) was negotiated by governments.
UN FAO Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security
What does the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food do?
To inform governments on developments related to the right to food, to monitor compliance on the right to food, shape our understanding of what the right to food requires.
Where we can find detailed guidelines for governments on the implementation of the right to food? Hint: this instrument (with a very long name) was negotiated by governments.
UN FAO Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security