A former member of the Swiss Parliament and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food discusses how the new global market in biofuels may have given rise to widespread starvation that has suddenly re
As an example of the meaning of economic, social, and cultural rights in general, Kent (political science, U. of Hawai'i) explores the meaning of the claim that adequate food is a human right. He sugg
This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the United Nation's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It highlights the conceptual advances in the legal understanding of the right to