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Book Synopsis Seeking the Right to Food by : Bright Nkrumah
Download or read book Seeking the Right to Food written by Bright Nkrumah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.
Download or read book Freedom from Want written by George Kent and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is, literally, a world of difference between the statements "Everyone should have adequate food," and "Everyone has the right to adequate food." In George Kent's view, the lofty rhetoric of the first statement will not be fulfilled until we take the second statement seriously. Kent sees hunger as a deeply political problem. Too many people do not have adequate control over local resources and cannot create the circumstances that would allow them to do meaningful, productive work and provide for themselves. The human right to an adequate livelihood, including the human right to adequate food, needs to be implemented worldwide in a systematic way. Freedom from Want makes it clear that feeding people will not solve the problem of hunger, for feeding programs can only be a short-term treatment of a symptom, not a cure. The real solution lies in empowering the poor. Governments, in particular, must ensure that their people face enabling conditions that allow citizens to provide for themselves. In a wider sense, Kent brings an understanding of human rights as a universal system, applicable to all nations on a global scale. If, as Kent argues, everyone has a human right to adequate food, it follows that those who can empower the poor have a duty to see that right implemented, and the obligation to be held morally and legally accountable, for seeing that that right is realized for everyone, everywhere.
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :9789251041772 Total Pages :66 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (417 download)
Book Synopsis The Right to Food by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book The Right to Food written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Office.
Book Synopsis Seeking the Right to Food by : Bright Nkrumah
Download or read book Seeking the Right to Food written by Bright Nkrumah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a constitutional right to food, a comprehensive social security structure, being a net exporter of agricultural products and maintaining a rising GDP, freedom from hunger remains a pipedream for millions of South Africans. With a constant surge in food prices, the availability of sustenance is often seriously threatened for all of South Africa's population. While the underprivileged majority residing in townships often demonstrate their discontent for poor service delivery on the streets, they rarely channel this strategy into taming food inflation. This study seeks to understand this irony and examine ways in which this trend could be reversed. Proposing a compelling argument for food activism, Bright Nkrumah suggests ways of mobilising disempowered groups to reclaim this inherent right. Presented alongside historical and contemporary case studies to illustrate the dynamics of collective action and food security in South Africa, he draws from legal, social and political theory to make the case for 'activism' as a force for alleviating food insecurity.
Book Synopsis Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights by : David E. Gumpert
Download or read book Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights written by David E. Gumpert and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Americans have the right to privately obtain the foods of our choice from farmers, neighbors, and local producers, in the same way our grandparents and great grandparents used to do? Yes, say a growing number of people increasingly afraid that the mass-produced food sold at supermarkets is excessively processed, tainted with antibiotic residues and hormones, and lacking in important nutrients. These people, a million or more, are seeking foods outside the regulatory system, like raw milk, custom-slaughtered beef, and pastured eggs from chickens raised without soy, purchased directly from private membership-only food clubs that contract with Amish and other farmers. Public-health and agriculture regulators, however, say no: Americans have no inherent right to eat what they want. In today's ever-more-dangerous food-safety environment, they argue, all food, no matter the source, must be closely regulated, and even barred, if it fails to meet certain standards. These regulators, headed up by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with help from state agriculture departments, police, and district-attorney detectives, are mounting intense and sophisticated investigative campaigns against farms and food clubs supplying privately exchanged food-even handcuffing and hauling off to jail, under threat of lengthy prison terms, those deemed in violation of food laws. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights takes readers on a disturbing cross-country journey from Maine to California through a netherworld of Amish farmers paying big fees to questionable advisers to avoid the quagmire of America's legal system, secret food police lurking in vans at farmers markets, cultish activists preaching the benefits of pathogens, U.S. Justice Department lawyers clashing with local sheriffs, small Maine towns passing ordinances to ban regulation, and suburban moms worried enough about the dangers of supermarket food that they'll risk fines and jail to feed their children unprocessed, and unregulated, foods of their choosing. Out of the intensity of this unprecedented crackdown, and the creative and spirited opposition that is rising to meet it, a new rallying cry for food rights is emerging.
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Fao ISBN 13 :9789251063705 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (637 download)
Book Synopsis Right to Food Methodological Toolbox by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Right to Food Methodological Toolbox written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Fao. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This toolbox is a book binder including six different volumes that provide practical information and detailed guidance on ways to integrate the right to food into different levels of national legislation, policies and programmes. It provides operational assistance to those seeking to monitor the right to adequate food and to identify and classify vulnerable groups suffering from hunger and food insecurity. There are also a large number of recommendations on planning, implementing and monitoring public allocations and expenditures in this field. The toolbox was put together by experts and practitioners with ample knowledge and experience in a variety of fields. The five volumes offer practical information into a variety of important subjects such as: introducing the right to food into a constitution or into national legislation; monitoring the right to adequate food, addressed largely to technical staff in public sector institutions and civil society o
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Resources, Food, and Energy Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :654 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis The Right-to-food Resolution by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Resources, Food, and Energy
Download or read book The Right-to-food Resolution written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Resources, Food, and Energy and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Right to Food by : Philips Alston
Download or read book The Right to Food written by Philips Alston and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1984-11-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface.
Book Synopsis Governing food security by : Irene Hadiprayitno
Download or read book Governing food security written by Irene Hadiprayitno and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, food security still is a dream rather than reality: 'a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life'. Political commitments at world summits on food security, market-based agricultural policies, science-based food safety regulation and voluntary guidelines on the right to food have not ended hunger, malnourishment or food safety crises in our world. The question arises whether food insecurity is a situation that exists in spite of these commitments and legal measures, or rather due to them? This book has three purposes. Firstly, it offers insights in how law, politics and the right to food contribute to food security in both positive and negative ways. For this purpose, different theories, concepts and methodologies from legal, political, anthropological and sociological sciences are used and developed. Secondly, the book explains that food security and food policies cannot be treated as given, at one level or in one domain only. This is done in different ways: by pointing out the emergence of new paradigms on food security, human rights and science that shape food policies; by showing how law and policies at one level affect food security at another level; and by treating food security and food policies as linked to governance regimes of agriculture, food, feed, water or property. Finally, the book offers scholarly analysis of paradigms and practices but also presents social science-based ways to indirectly contribute to food security, varying from improving justiciability to building trust, from seeking ways to address non-scientific concerns to creating room for plurality of lifestyles and norms, from unmasking dominant discourse to understanding or strengthening abilities or arrangements to cope with vulnerability.
Author :The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :9251323011 Total Pages :146 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (513 download)
Book Synopsis The right to water for food and agriculture by : The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book The right to water for food and agriculture written by The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right to water emerged in the Nineties primarily as the right to domestic water for drinking, washing and cooking, and was closely related to the right to sanitation, both of which are seen as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living. This study examines the question of the right to water for food and agriculture and asks whether such a right can be found in the right to water, or whether it is more appropriate to examine the right to adequate food for that purpose. Seeking inspiration from the right to adequate food and from other fields of international law, the study explores the content of the right to water for food and agriculture and then considers its implications for water law. Recognizing a human right to water – for drinking and household needs as well as for growing food – has implications for water allocation and sets limits to the extent that water can be allocated for other uses. In addition, it entails the respect for procedural rights and attention to important principles, such as the principle of non-discrimination and the rights of indigenous peoples.
Book Synopsis Food Bank Nations by : Graham Riches
Download or read book Food Bank Nations written by Graham Riches and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world’s most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty. It investigates the prevalence and causes of domestic hunger and food waste in OECD member states, the origins and thirty-year rise of US style charitable food banking, and its institutionalization and corporatization. It unmasks the hidden functions of transnational corporate food banking which construct domestic hunger as a matter for charity thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food. The book’s unifying theme is understanding the food bank nation as a powerful metaphor for the deep hole at the centre of neoliberalism, illustrating: the de-politicization of hunger; the abandonment of social rights; the stigma of begging and loss of human dignity; broken social safety nets; the dysfunctional food system; the shift from income security to charitable food relief; and public policy neglect. It exposes the hazards of corporate food philanthropy and the moral vacuum within negligent governments and their lack of public accountability. The advocacy of civil society with a right to food bite is urgently needed to gather political will and advance ‘joined-up’ policies and courses of action to ensure food security for all.
Book Synopsis Human Rights and the Right to Food by : Claudia Tofan
Download or read book Human Rights and the Right to Food written by Claudia Tofan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seeking HUNGER by : Anand Chockalingam, MD
Download or read book Seeking HUNGER written by Anand Chockalingam, MD and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger has threatened, driven, and shaped our existence since the beginning of human history. However, our fast-paced society and modern culture have altered our relationship with food and hunger. While consumerism and urbanization have created new priorities and values for humankind, they have left us with little time to introspect and connect to our body. In this short book, you will journey through humankind's relationship with hunger through the ages. You will understand how to relate to hunger on your terms to secure a lifetime of health and energy. Hunger is an invaluable life experience, and you will see why hunger is fundamental and natural to humans. In Seeking Hunger, you will discover the reason why we need hunger to live a full life.This is the first book in the HiLifeJourney series to better health and a meaningful life. HiLifeJourney combines mindfulness, Siddha Yoga, and positive psychology with the latest cardiology research for holistic wellness.Author Prof. Anand Chockalingam is a cardiologist at the University of Missouri, Columbia. From his research into stress cardiomyopathy, mental health, and heart failure, he pioneered a self-inquiry-based program called 'Heartful Living' for cardiac patients with hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and heart failure. Since 2015, this program has helped thousands of people world over discover lasting health, reduce their need for medication, and feel decades younger. It has helped doctors to become resilient, students to become confident, and individuals to improve their mindset and health.
Book Synopsis Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food by : Anne C. Bellows
Download or read book Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food written by Anne C. Bellows and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. Three conditions arising from these disconnects are discussed: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women’s human rights, as well as their private and public contributions to food and nutrition security for all; many women’s experience of their and their children’s simultaneously independent and intertwined subjectivities during pregnancy and breastfeeding being poorly understood in human rights law and abused by poorly-regulated food and nutrition industry marketing practices; and the neoliberal economic system’s interference both with the autonomy and self-determination of women and their communities and with the strengthening of sustainable diets based on democratically governed local food systems. The book calls for a social movement-led reconceptualization of the right to adequate food toward incorporating gender, women’s rights, and nutrition, based on the food sovereignty framework.
Book Synopsis The Right to Food and the Trips Agreement by : Hans Morten Haugen
Download or read book The Right to Food and the Trips Agreement written by Hans Morten Haugen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses relationships between patent rights and human rights, focusing on the right to food. Whether the TRIPS Agreement and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights actually conflict, is analyzed through different techniques of assessing treaty conflict.
Book Synopsis The Right to Development by : Centre for Development and Human Rights
Download or read book The Right to Development written by Centre for Development and Human Rights and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Right to Development (RTD), a concept that emerged in the 1970s, is one of the most debated and contentious issues in international relations. RTD builds on the rights based approach to development, seeking to integrate the norms and principles of human rights with policies and plans to promote development. Despite its importance for the world’s poor and dispossessed, a great deal of definitional confusion still surrounds the concept./-//-/This primer introduces the concept of RTD as well as discusses its practical application in the Indian setting. It is divided accordingly into two sections, the first of which traces the origins and the evolution of the idea of RTD. This section identifies the defining parameters and content of RTD and focuses especially on the three rights—the rights to food, education and health—that have been identified as a ‘good starting point’ for the implementation of RTD. The last chapter in this section underscores the importance of women’s rights in order to emphasise the need to focus on safeguarding and promoting the human rights of vulnerable groups./-//-/Part II covers substantially the Indian situation relating to RTD. The first chapter in this section provides an overview of the legal and institutional mechanism in India for the protection of human rights in general and women’s rights in particular. The next chapter examines the implementation of the rights to food, health and education. The last chapter in this section details the functioning of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) —which has emerged in recent years as an important mechanism for securing social justice—and the challenges and limitations of this mechanism.
Book Synopsis Yearbook of the International Law Commission 2011 by : United Nations Publications
Download or read book Yearbook of the International Law Commission 2011 written by United Nations Publications and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Law Commission was established in 1947 with a view to carrying out the responsibility of the General Assembly, under article 13(1)(a) of the Charter of the United Nations, to "initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of ... encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification." Since its first session in 1949, the Commission has considered a wide-range of topics of international law and made a number of proposals for its codification and progressive development, some of which have served as the basis for the subsequent adoption of major multilateral treaties. The Yearbook of the International Law Commission contains the official records of the Commission and is an indispensable tool for the preservation of the legislative history of the documents emanating from the Commission, as well as for the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of the efforts undertaken by the Commission in the progressive development of international law and its codification. Volume I reproduces the summary records of the Commission's annual sessions.
