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The term “right to food”, and its variations, is derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food in 2002 defined it as follows: This page is a candidate to be moved to Wikisource. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

Right to adequate food is a human right, inherent in all people, to have regular, permanent and unrestricted access, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and sufficient food corresponding to the cultural traditions of people to which the consumer belongs, and which ensures a physical and mental, individual and collective fulfilling and dignified life free of fear.[citation needed] Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

This definition entails all normative elements explained in detail in the General Comment 12 of the ICESCR, which states:

[...] the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, have the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement.[1]

The ICESCR recognizes the "right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food", as well as the "fundamental right to be free from hunger". The relationship between the two concepts is not straightforward. For example, "freedom from hunger" (which General Comment 12 designates as more pressing and immediate) could be measured by the number of people suffering from malnutrition and at the extreme, dying of starvation. The "right to adequate food" is a much higher standard, including not only absence of malnutrition, but to the full range of qualities associated with food, including safety, variety and dignity, in short all those elements needed to enable an active and healthy life.


Development of the right to food:


1941 "The Four Freedoms" speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR redirects here. ...


1945 Founding of the United Nations


1948 Universal Declaration of the Human Rights


1966 International Covenant on Economic,Social and Cultural Rights(ESC Covenant)


1976 ESC Covenant comes into force


1993 Human Rights Congress in Vienna,establishment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights


1996 World Food Summit


1999 General Comment 12


2004 Voluntary Guidelines


See also

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References

  1. ^ General Comment 12 of the ICESCR
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