General Comment No. 12. The right to adequate food

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) used its General Comment and its analyses of reports from Member States to clarify the meaning of the ambiguous measures in the Covenant. The General Comment adopted in 1999 was particularly important because it gave a much better definition of the right to food, and better guidelines on how countries should act. It analyses the normative content of the right to food, the obligations of Member States for its implementation at the national and international levels.

UN, Committee on economic, social and cultural rights - 1999