Coverpage
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Contents
Preface
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Hunger and the Right to Food
1.1 The state of hunger in the world today
1.2 The development of the right to food
1.2.1 World Food Summit 1996
1.2.2 World Food Summit: five years later
1.2.3 Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food
1.2.4 The United Nations human rights system and the right to food
Part I The Right to Food in International Law
2 The Definition of the Right to Food in International Law
2.1 The definition of the right to food.

2.2 Correlative States' obligations
2.2.1 The obligation to respect the right to food
2.2.2 The obligation to protect the right to food
2.2.3 The obligation to fulfil the right to food
2.2.4 The concept of progressive realization of the right to food
2.2.5 The obligation to provide a basic minimum subsistence
2.2.6 The obligation of non-retrogression
2.2.7 The obligation of non- discrimination
3 The Right to Food of the Most Vulnerable People
3.1 Women
3.1.1 Gender dimensions of the right to food
3.1.2 International instruments protecting women's right to food.

3.2 Children
3.2.1 The extreme vulnerability of children to hunger and malnutrition
3.2.2 Children's right to food under international law
3.2.3 Child combatants in armed conflicts and the right to food
3.3 Farmers and peasants
3.3.1 Rural poverty and access to land
3.3.2 Agrarian reform
3.4 Fisherpeople
3.4.1 Linkages between fisheries and the right to food
3.4.2 Challenges to the right to food for fishing and fish-farming communities
3.4.3 A right-to-food approach to fisheries
3.5 Indigenous people.

3.5.1 Key issues facing the right to food of indigenous peoples
3.5.2 Legal framework governing the right to food of indigenous peoples
3.5.3 Government obligations vis-à-vis the right to food of indigenous peoples
3.6 Refugees from hunger
3.6.1 Fleeing from hunger
3.6.2 The need to recognize refugees from hunger
4 The Right to Food in an Era of Globalization
4.1 International trade and the right to food
4.1.1 Trade and food security
4.1.2 Trade liberalization and the right to food
4.1.3 Progress in international trade negotiations and the right to food.

4.2 Extraterritorial obligations of states to the right to food
4.2.1 Legal framework for extraterritorial obligations
4.3 The responsibilities of international organizations concerning the right to food
4.3.1 Key impacts of international organizations on the right to food
4.3.2 The legal framework: international organizations and the right to food
4.4 The responsibilities of private actors regarding the right to food: transnational corporations
4.4.1 The impact of transnational corporations on the right to food.

4.4.2 Holding corporations accountable for human rights violations.