Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Edited by Olivier De Schutter and Kaitlin Cordes Издательство: Страниц: 300 ISBN: 1849462267
Описание
The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book has several functions: to describe the current situation of global hunger, to consider how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets, and to explain how the right to food contributes to identifying solutions at the domestic and international levels. The right to food, it argues, can only be realized if governance improves at the domestic level, and if the international environment enables governments to adopt appropriate policies, for which they require a certain policy space. The essays in this book demonstrate how improved accountability at national level and reform of the international economic environment in the areas of trade, food aid, and...
