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dc.date.accessioned2014-02-11T11:58:25Z
dc.date.available2014-02-11T11:58:25Z
dc.date.issued2013-12-20
dc.identifier.issn2197-411X
dc.identifier.uriurn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2014021145056
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2014021145056
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherDepartment of Organic Food Quality and Food Culture at the University of Kassel, Germany and Federation of German Scientists (VDW)eng
dc.rightsUrheberrechtlich geschützt
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectRight to foodeng
dc.subjectFood securityeng
dc.subjectFood aideng
dc.subjectInternational laweng
dc.subjectHuman rightseng
dc.subjectBiological diversityeng
dc.subject.ddc630
dc.titleRight to Food, Food Security and Food Aid Under International Law, or the Limits of a right-based approacheng
dc.typeAufsatz
dcterms.abstractThe right to food has become a pillar of international humanitarian and human rights law. The increasing number of food-related emergencies and the evolution of the international order brought the more precise notion of food security and made a potential right to receive food aid emerge. Despite this apparent centrality, recent statistics show that a life free from hunger is for many people all over the world still a utopian idea. The paper will explore nature and content of the right to food, food security and food aid under international law in order to understand the reasons behind the substantial failure of this right-centred approach, emphasising the lack of legal effects of many food-related provisions because of excessive moral connotations of the right to be free from hunger. Bearing in mind the three-dimensional nature of food security, the paper will also suggest that all attention has been focused on the availability of food, while real difficulties arise in terms of accessibility and adequacy. Emergency situations provide an excellent example of this unbalance, as the emerging right to receive food aid focus itself on the availability of food, without improving local production and adequacy. Looking at other evolving sectors of international law, such as the protection of the environment, and particularly the safeguard of biological diversity, alternative solutions will be envisaged in order to “feed” the right to food.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIn: Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society. Witzenhausen : University of Kassel, Department of Organic Food Quality and Food Culture. - Vol. 1, No. 2 (2013), S. 18-28
dcterms.creatorGualtieri, Donato


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