Accounting for Hunger

The Right to Food in the Era of Globalisation
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84946-226-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

Reihe: Studies in International Law

The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book has several functions: to describe the current situation of global hunger, to consider how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets, and to explain how the right to food contributes to identifying solutions at the domestic and international levels. The right to food, it argues, can only be realised if governance improves at the domestic level, and if the international environment enables governments to adopt appropriate policies, for which they require a certain policy space. The essays in this book demonstrate how improved accountability at national level and reform of the international economic environment in the areas of trade, food aid, and investment, go hand in hand in the move towards full realisation of the right to food, while reforms at domestic level are key in effectively tackling hunger (including reforms that improve accountability of government officials). The current regimes of trade, investment and food aid, as well as the development of biofuels production - all of which contribute to define the international context in which States implement such reforms - should be reshaped if these national efforts are to be successful. The title -- Accounting for Hunger -- emphasises the point that accountability both at domestic and international level must be improved if sustainable progress is to be achieved in combating global hunger. The implication is that extraterritorial human rights obligations of States (their obligations to respect the right to food beyond their national territories, for instance in their food aid, investment or trade policies), as well as the strengthening of global governance of food security (as is currently being attempted with the reform of the Committee on World Food Security in Rome), have a key role to fulfill: domestic reforms will not achieve sustainable results unless the international environment is more enabling of the efforts of governments acting individually.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cordes, Kaitlin Y

de Schutter, Olivier

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Accounting for Hunger: An Introduction to the Issues

Olivier De Schutter and Kaitlin Cordes
Part I: Addressing Power Imbalances in the Food Systems
2. The Impact of Agribusiness Transnational Corporations on the Right to Food

Kaitlin Y Cordes
3. The Transformation of Food Retail and Marginalisation of Smallholder Farmers

Margaret Cowan Schmidt
4. Biofuels and the Right to Food: An uneasy partnership

Ann Sofi e Cloots
Part II: Trade and Aid: An Enabling International Environment

5. International Trade in Agriculture and the Right to Food

Olivier De Schutter
6. How to Phase Out Rich Country Agricultural Subsidies Without Increasing Hunger in the Developing World

Jennifer Mersing
7. Invoking the Right to Food in the WTO Dispute Settlement Process: The Relevance of the Right to Food to the Law of the WTO

Boyan Konstantinov
8. Food Aid: How It Should Be Done

Loreto Ferrer Moreu

Über Autor(innen)

Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Professor of Law at the Universte Catholique de Louvain and College of Europe, and Visiting Professor, Columbia University.
Kaitlin Y Cordes works for Human Rights Watch.