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- Title
CONSTITUTIONALIZING AN ENFORCEABLE RIGHT TO FOOD: A NEW TOOL FOR COMBATING HUNGER.
- Authors
McDermott, Michael J.
- Abstract
Although international treaties recognize a right to food, few nations have established a domestic, legally enforceable right to food. A justiciable national right to food can provide a basis for legal redress, national food policies, and state aid programs. India, South Africa, and Brazil provide insight and lessons that can be applied to other nations, like Mexico, to identify effective means for creating a national right to food. This Note compares effective national right to food efforts and identifies essential elements underlying a justiciable national right to food. By evaluating the development of a right to food within in the international and national systems it is clear that the right to food is most effective when national constitutions provide justiciable means for legal redress and enforcement of that right.
- Subjects
RIGHT to food; CONSTITUTIONAL law; HUNGER prevention; TREATIES; NUTRITION policy; COMPARATIVE law; JUSTICIABILITY (International law); CONSTITUTIONS; LAW
- Publication
Boston College International & Comparative Law Review, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 2, p543
- ISSN
0277-5778
- Publication type
Article