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PRF - Progress on the right to food
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
The idea of the human right to food as a legal framework to address inequalities in the global food system has become increasingly mainstreamed at the level of political discourse and public...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7638/?v=1
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PRF - SYNTHESIS - The right to food: Reflecting on the past and future possibilities
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Nadia Lambek
As scholars and activists met in Waterloo, Canada in September 2014 to discuss progress and obstacles in adopting the right to food, similar discussions were being held by the Food and Agriculture...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7642/?v=1
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PRF - The right to food and politics of knowledge
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Philip McMichael
This article concerns a particular struggle over the right to food, as played out recently in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), within the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)....
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7640/?v=1
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PRF - The right to food: Many developments, more challenges
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Priscilla Claeys
The right to food (RTF)1has enjoyed growing recognition in the last decade. It has achieved legitimacy and visibility in international governance debates, where it is increasingly perceived as a...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7641/?v=1
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PRF - The right to food: Progress and pitfalls
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Smita Narula
Over the course of the past decade the human right to adequate food has definitively emerged as a normative response to widespread food insecurity, global food crises, and to the related phenomenon...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7639/?v=1
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Rights for whom? Linking baby’s right to eat with economic, social, and cultural rights for women
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Christina Doonan
Breastfeeding women are primary food producers par excellence, delivering a custom-made product to fit the exact needs of a favoured clientele. The importance of breastmilk as a first food has been...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7579/?v=1
