ENSC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Rights-Based Approach To Development, Food Security, Food Bank

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENSC 315
• Professor: Susan Belyea

Document Summary

Article 25 universal declaration of human rights (1948) Article 11 international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966) The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in a community with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. Provides a tool to shape and evaluate policies and activities at the: Often funneled down through state, provincial or municipal structures. Local: multiple definitions of local - regional, municipal, neighborhood etc. In order to realize the right to food, we have to think about a cluster of rights. Food banks emerged as a temporary solution in 1980s. National problem but usually addressed on local, charity based scale. Access to food charities is not a right. Be it resolved that food banks and meal programs in canada help to fulfill the rights to food and are, therefore an important element of food security in.