Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food
Title | Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789251060667 |
Methods to Monitor the Human Rights to Adequate Food
Title | Methods to Monitor the Human Rights to Adequate Food PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agricultural Organization |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Human rights |
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Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food: Making the case for rights-focused and rights-based monitoring
Title | Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food: Making the case for rights-focused and rights-based monitoring PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food
Title | Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food PDF eBook |
Author | FAO. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Right to Food
Title | The Right to Food PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9789251041772 |
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Right to Food Methodological Toolbox
Title | Right to Food Methodological Toolbox PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Food security |
ISBN | 9789251060605 |
Freedom from Want
Title | Freedom from Want PDF eBook |
Author | George Kent |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2005-06-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781589013254 |
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.