The Fight for the Right to Food
 | Lessons Learned Over one billion people today are gravely undernourished and twenty-five thousand people die every day from hunger and hunger-related causes. Yet current global agricultural output could easily feed the world population of 6.8 billion people daily. These figures reveal the severity and needlessness of world hunger. The Fight for the Right to Food gives important insights into the work of the UN’s first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, written by the Special Rapporteur himself and his team. This book includes the essential conceptual and legal developments and offers an operational understanding of the right to food by documenting experiences from eleven countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It identifies the obstacles to the realisation of the right to food, sets out key challenges for the future, and pushes forward the frontiers of international human rights law to address the persistence of hunger in the face of globalisation. Authors Jean Ziegler was the UN’s first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He is now Vice- President of the UN Human Rights Council’s Advisory Committee, Switzerland. Christophe Golay is Joint Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Senior Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Switzerland. Claire Mahon is Joint Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Senior Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Switzerland. Sally-Anne Way is Senior Researcher at the Center for Economic and Social Rights, Spain. Orders International Relations and Development Series 1. London: Palgrave Macmillan; Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications. 2011. 512 p. Price : 70 £, 80 €. Available in bookshops or online at: www.palgrave.com or send your order by postal mail to: Direct Customer Services – Palgrave Macmillan – Publishing Building Brunel Road – Houndmills – Basingstoke – RG21 6XS– United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 1256 302866 – Fax: +44 (0) 1256 330688 – Email: orders@palgrave.com | |
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