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Accounting for Hunger - The Right to Food in the Era of Globalisation (Hardcover, New)
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Accounting for Hunger - The Right to Food in the Era of Globalisation (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in International Law
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The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of
governments and international policy-makers. The contributors in
this study address that challenge by looking at the obstacles which
stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of
globalization. The right to food, the book argues, can only be
realized if governance improves at the domestic level and if the
international environment enables governments to adopt appropriate
policies. The book's essays demonstrate how improved accountability
at the 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 realization 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 - emphasizes 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
the extraterritorial human rights obligations of States - beyond
their national territories 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. (Series: Studies in
International Law - Vol. 36)
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