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Author Cresswell Riol, Katharine S. E

Title The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation : Country case studies
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Routledge studies in food, society and environment.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of acronyms; Preface; 1 Introduction; Food want and political will; Premises and principles of the research; Human rights-based approach: making the right to adequate food tangible; Book outline; 2 Food, human rights, democracy and beyond; Introduction; Adequate food: a human right; Democracy: fidus Achates; Civil society: ostracised yet unresigned; An undemocratic state of affairs: the neoliberal food system; Food sovereignty: the democratic alternative; From rhetoric to & rhetoric
3 A historical background of the right to adequate food and the Right to Food GuidelinesIntroduction; The development of international recognition of the right to food: an overview; The Right to Food Guidelines: conception, reception, perception; 4 United yet unique: the BRICS; Introduction; Building the BRICS; B is for the Federal Republic of Brazil; R is for the Russian Federation; I is for the Republic of India; C is for the People's Republic of China; S is for the Republic of South Africa; Forged futures, particular pasts
5 Reporting on the Right to Food Guidelines: the use and usefulness of CESCR periodic reporting within right to adequate food realisationIntroduction; CESCR reporting procedures: an overview; CESCR reporting by the BRICS; Reporting on the Right to Food Guidelines; CESCR periodic reporting: soldiering on; Civil society: the missing piece; 6 Implementation of guideline 1 of the Right to Food Guidelines by the BRICS: an evaluation; Introduction; Guideline 1.1; Guideline 1.2; Guideline 1.3; Guideline 1.4; Guideline 1.5
7 Assessing the policy-making capabilities of the Right to Food Guidelines: how they uphold and undermine right to adequate food realisationIntroduction; The Right to Food Guidelines: an assessment within reality; Screen State Action: a monitoring tool for civil society; 8 Democracy from below; The Right to Food Guidelines: help or hinder?; Civil society: the discerning factor; Bottom-up democracy: food sovereignty; The alternative; Conclusion; Appendix A: Periodic reports submitted by the relevant BRICS to the CESCR
Notes Appendix B: How the questions posed by Screen State Action were matched with the sub-guidelines of guideline of the Right to Food GuidelinesIndex
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Subject Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Right to Food Guidelines.
SUBJECT Right to Food Guidelines (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) fast
Subject Right to food.
Right to food -- BRIC countries
Right to food
BRIC countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315529875
1315529874