Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach

This briefing note highlights the implementation of the right to food at national scale in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. Various countries gave concrete meaning to the right to food principles in their constitutions, laws, courts, institutions, policies and programmes, and for various food security topics, such as fishing, land, focus on vulnerable groups, and access to resources.

 O. de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food - May 2010