This article reconstructs the origin and the trajectory of the right to food from a constructivist perspective on the emergence of norms. To this end, a press review was conducted using the Google News archive, the speeches of delegations during the decision-making moments of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were analyzed, and the process ...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
This systematic review assembles evidence for rights-based approaches–the right to food and food sovereignty–for achieving food security and adequate nutrition (FSN). We evaluated peer-reviewed and gray literature produced between 1992 and 2018 that documents empirical relationships between the right to food or food sovereignty and FSN. We classifi...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The humanitarian emergency that Venezuela is experiencing, one of whose edges is the food insecurity of more than 80% of the population, coincides with the serious institutional deterioration of the country and with the rupture of the constitutional order under the so-called “socialism of the 21st century” (2005 to the present), as reflected in var...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear that the Summit is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of mul...
Published in International Journal of Legal Discourse
The article aims to analyse what it means to study state obligations to progressive realization of the right to food from the perspective of legal complexity. This perspective studies law not in isolation, rather in the existence of multiple legal systems at socio-political space of states. The article highlights that employing legal complexity, pa...
Published in Nursing ethics
Human rights are an important part of nursing practice. Although there is increasing recognition regarding the importance of including human rights education in nursing education, few studies have focused on nursing students' perspectives and experiences in relation to human rights in nursing, especially regarding older nursing home residents' righ...
Abstract This article returns to the discussion on the international responsibilities of private companies based on the case of biofuel producers in relation to the rights to water and food. To this end, it analyzes the level of compliance of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights of the 13 largest biofuel producers in Colombia. We ...
The objective of this article is to define the necessary elements that must be considered to guarantee the right to adequate food in confinement contexts and that can be adopted by municipal and district governments through their development plans. For this paper, a qualitative research with a documentarytype hermeneutic approach was carried out. I...
Published in Global Jurist
Natural and technological disasters have the potential to severely undermine the capacity of States to comply with their human rights obligations. Among the most vital rights of disaster victims are the rights to food and water, encapsulated in the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In this article, the scope of State obligations und...
Published in Health promotion international
Overweight and obesity in children is rising at the global level, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Among the causes for this increase is the marketing of unhealthy food and beverage products, which affects children's food preferences, purchasing requests and consumption patterns. The need to address harmful marketing to children ha...
