1 Preface 2 Chapter One: Global Obligations 3 Chapter Two: Extraterritorial Obligations: A Response to Globalization 4 Chapter Three: International Legal Dimensions of the Right to Food 5 Chapter Four: Holding Corporations Accountable in Relation to the Right to Food 6 Chapter Five: International Legal Obligations for Infants' Right to Food 7 Chapter Six: Global Action against Worms, Malaria, and Measles 8 Chapter Seven: Public Access to Seeds and the Human Right to Adequate Food 9 Chapter Eight: Global Support for School Feeding 10 Chapter Nine: Reflections 11 Chapter Ten: Recommendations
George Kent is professor of political science at the University of Hawaii and he is the author of several books, including Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food and Children in the International Political Economy.
Global Obligations for the Right to Food offers an in-depth look at
the urgent need for global responsibility. In this timely work,
George Kent and a collection of experts address issues of corporate
accountability, infant rights to food, and public access to seeds.
As persistent inequalities lead to increasing levels of under
nutrition on the one hand, and a growing pandemic of obesity on the
other hand Global Obligations for the Right to Food brings much
needed attention to this very complex issue.
*David Clark, Legal Officer Nutrition Section UNICEF, New York*
A must read for anyone interested in globalization, human rights,
and the institutional and legal underpinnings of the world food and
agriculture system, Global Obligations for the Right to Food
addresses the timely challenge to world leaders and key
international institutions to ensure adequate food for all.
*Heather D. Gautney, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Fordham
University and co-author of Implicating Empire: Globalization and
Resistance in the 21*
This multi-authored book, a project of a United Nations working
group on Nutrition, Ethics, and Human Rights, discusses
'malnutrition in all its forms' with poverty and powerlessness as
the primary focus. Topics include restrictions to public access to
seeds, the marketing of calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods that
fuel obesity worldwide, and the need to make multinational food
corporations accountable. Kent describes global inaction on
malnutrition despite idealistic international declarations and
shows how 'the net flow of food in international trade is from
south to north: the poor feed the rich.'
*Ilca Print and Multimedia Reviews, March 2009*
Kent's book....pleads for greater institutional (national and
UN-based) involvement in ensuring that the principles established
in the right to food and the other charters and conventions that
lay down human rights are put into practice in national law and
international agreements.
*Food Magazine, March 2009*
The book provides an excellent foundation for continuing the debate
on global obligations for the right to food. It provides
recommendations to global and UN actors, detailed legal
justifications, case studies, successful examples of how countries
hold corporations accountable, e.g. civil public action in Brazil
or the Infant Milk Substitutes Act in India, and tools to be used
at the international level to promote accountability and global
responsibility.
*Journal Of Peace Education, March 2009*
Each year on October 16, World Food Day reminds the world's
population that the chief obstacle to the right to food is not
famine caused by weather. It is political failure at every
level—local, corporate, national, and international. In Global
Obligations for the Right to Food, George Kent and his colleagues
clarify the obligations at each of these levels to remedy the
tragedies caused by political failure.
*Richard P. Claude, professor emertitus at University Maryland and
author of Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and
Action*
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