Food Security and Global Institutions: A Global Justice Perspective

Title

Food Security and Global Institutions: A Global Justice Perspective

Creator

Mishra A.

Description

Food security refers to a condition where all people have physical and economic access, at all times, to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their needs and food preferences to lead an active and healthy life. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (UDHR) declares the right to food as a basic human rights. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1976 (ICESR) explicitly recognises the right of everyone to food and mandates all state parties for its realization; also it recognizes everyones right to be free from hunger as a fundamental right. Further, it instructs the state parties to ensure equitable distribution of world food supplies to achieve the right of everyone to be free from hunger. Rome Declaration on World Food Security, 1996 reaffirmed the right of everyone to access to safe and nutritious food compatible with right to adequate food and also right to be free from hunger. United Nations Millennium Declaration set the goal for fighting hunger and resolved to reduce the proportion of people suffering from hunger to half by 2015, then Sustainable Development Goals were floated, inter alia, to end extreme poverty and achieve the target of zero hunger and food security by 2030. Regardless of its being a universal human rights, food security scenario across the globe is far from satisfactory and fair. Post COVID 19 scenario has seen a surge in undernourishment and food insecurity. According to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2022, 3.1 billion people across the globe are unable to afford a healthy diet. At this juncture we are living in a deeply connected and globalized world run not by national institutions but by global institutions. The role of global institutions assume significance in a globalized world. Justice demands that policy planning and legal framework on food security should be fair and equitable; they should be based on the idea of entitlement and obligation. To achieve the goal of zero hunger and food security, what is required is an equitable and unified global governance approach premised upon the idea of global justice which shall fix obligations on global institutions. This chapter aims at examining the issue of food security from a global justice perspective and how it can be sustainably achieved. It will explain the concept of global justice and obligations of global institutions by relying upon few legal and political theories. Further, the chapter will explain the human rights perspective of the food security and the challenges involved with it. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.

Source

Food Security in a Developing World: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities, pp. 53-71.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

Springer Nature

Subject

Food security; Global institutions; Global justice; Human rights; Poverty

Coverage

Mishra A., School of Law, Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-303157283-8; 978-303157282-1

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57283-8_4

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