The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation: Country case studies

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Katharine S. E. Cresswell Riol (University of Otago, New Zealand)

The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation

Country case studies

Katharine S. E. Cresswell Riol (University of Otago, New Zealand)

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Routledge
19 October 2016

Food & society; Sociology; Public international law; Food & beverage technology

Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

"It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. The focus is on the first key guideline – ""Democracy, good governance, human rights and the rule of law"" – with an emphasis on civil society participation in global food governance. The five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are presented as case studies: representing major emerging economies, they blur the line between the Global North and South, and exhibit different levels of human rights realisation.

The book first provides an overview of the right to adequate food, accountability and democracy, and an introduction to the history of the development of the right to adequate food and the Right to Food Guidelines. It presents a historical synopsis of each of the BRICS states’ experiences with the right to adequate food and an analysis of their related periodic reporting to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as a specific assessment of their progress in regard to the first guideline. The discussion then focuses on the effectiveness of the Right to Food Guidelines as both a policy-making and monitoring tool, based on the analysis of the guidelines and the BRICS states."

By: Katharine S. E. Cresswell Riol (University of Otago New Zealand)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138693630
ISBN 10: 1138693634
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 19 October 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katharine S. E. Cresswell Riol is a doctoral student at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has a Master's degree from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, and has previously been employed as an academic writing advisor and freelance writer, as well as working and volunteering for several NGOs in the UK, Australia and Canada.

Reviews for The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation: Country case studies

Through BRIC country case studies, this book critically assesses how national states and civil society use the Human Right to Adequate Food Guidelines to monitor the realization of democratic food governance under rule of law. Its valuable contribution expands the use of human rights instruments and procedures in the context of research methods as well as social change mechanisms. - Anne C. Bellows, Syracuse University, NY, USA