Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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"Food security is a condition related to the supply of food, and individuals? access to it. Concerns over food security have existed throughout history. There is evidence of granaries being in use over 10,000 years ago, with central authorities in civilizations including ancient China and ancient Egypt being known to release food from storage in times of famine. At the 1974 World Food Conference the term "food security" was defined with an emphasis on supply. Food security, they said, is the "availability at all times of adequate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices".[1] Later definitions added demand and access issues to the definition. The final report of the 1996 World Food Summit states that food security "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".[2][3]
Household food security exists when all members, at all times, have access to enough food for an active, healthy life.[4] Individuals who are food secure do not live in hunger or fear of starvation.[5] Food insecurity, on the other hand, is a situation of "limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways", according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).[6] Food security incorporates a measure of resilience to future disruption or unavailability of critical food supply due to various risk factors including droughts, shipping disruptions, fuel shortages, economic instability, and wars. In the years 2011-2013, an estimated 842 million people were suffering from chronic hunger.[7] The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO, identified the four pillars of food security as availability, access, utilization, and stability.[8] The United Nations (UN) recognized the Right to Food in the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948,[5] and has since noted that it is vital for the enjoyment of all other rights.[9]
The 1996 World Summit on Food Security declared that "food should not be used as an instrument for political and economic pressure".[3] According to the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, failed agriculture market regulation and the lack of anti-dumping mechanisms cause much of the world?s food scarcity and malnutrition."
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Wikipedia
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2016-09-11
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Reports, resolutions etc.
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United Nations
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2003-06-03
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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[For Burma, the most relevant section is that dealing with non-international armed conflict]. "War is one of the primary obstacles to realization of the right of all people to have adequate food. This article examines the relevant provisions, belonging to human rights law or international humanitarian law, of the various international law treaties The author concludes that the body of rules codified by the instruments of international humanitarian law in force today are sufficient to ensure adequate food for persons affected by armed conflict. Unlike the human rights treaties, the humanitarian law conventions do not create subjective rights for the persons concerned, but binding obligations for States."...R?sum? de l?article: "La guerre est l?un des obstacles majeurs ? la r?alisation du droit de chacun ? une alimentation ad?quate. Cet article examine les dispositions pertinentes des diff?rents trait?s de droit international, qu?elles appartiennent au droit des droits de l?homme ou au droit international humanitaire. L?auteur conclut que les instruments de droit international humanitaire en vigueur ont codifi? un corps de r?gles suffisant pour assurer une alimentation ad?quate aux personnes touch?es par un conflit arm?. Contrairement aux trait?s relatifs aux droits de l?homme, les conventions de droit humanitaire ne cr?ent pas des droits subjectifs pour les personnes concern?es, mais des obli-gations qui lient les ?tats."
Jelena Pejic
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ICRC: International Review of the Red Cross No. 844, p. 1097-1110.
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2001-12-31
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2010-11-29
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Internal conflict: international standards, mechanisms and commentary, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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English
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See Article 25
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United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2009-08-11
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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Falam (Chin)
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See Article 25
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United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2009-08-11
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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Hakha (Chin)
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See Article 25
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United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2009-08-11
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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Thai
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See Article 25
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2009-08-11
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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Tiddim (Chin)
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Establishing the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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2000-04-17
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2003-06-03
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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English
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See especially Article 11...
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI)
of 16 December 1966
entry into force 3 January 1976, in accordance with article 27
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United Nations
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1976-01-03
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2003-06-03
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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English
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See Article 25
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2003-06-03
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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English
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See Article 25
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2003-06-03
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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S'gaw-Karen
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See Article 25
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2003-06-03
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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Shan
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See especially Article 25
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
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2003-06-03
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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Burmese/ မွနျမာဘာသာ
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See Article 25
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1948-12-10
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
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Right to food: standards, mechanisms and resources, Right to Food - standards, definitions and mechanisms
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Pwo-Karen
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