Overview

This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural ""disconnects"" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. Three conditions arising from these disconnects are discussed: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women’s human rights, as well as their private and public contributions to food and nutrition security for all; many women’s experience of their and their children’s simultaneously independent and intertwined subjectivities during pregnancy and breastfeeding being poorly understood in human rights law and abused by poorly-regulated food and nutrition industry marketing practices; and the neoliberal economic system’s interference both with the autonomy and self-determination of women and their communities and with the strengthening of sustainable diets based on democratically governed local food systems. The book calls for a social movement-led reconceptualization of the right to adequate food toward incorporating gender, women’s rights, and nutrition, based on the food sovereignty framework.

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Author:   Anne C. Bellows (Syracuse University, USA) ,  Flavio L.S. Valente (FoodFirst Information Action Network (FIAN) - International, Germany) ,  Stefanie Lemke (Coventry University, UK) ,  María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara (University of Hohenheim, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   47
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780415714457

ISBN 10:   0415714451
Pages:   514
Publication Date:   21 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. The Evolving Nature of the Human Rights System and the Development of the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Concept Anne C. Bellows, María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara and Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana 2. Gender, Nutrition, and the Right to Adequate Food: Introducing Two Structural Disconnects and the Human Rights Processes Necessary to Address Them Anne C. Bellows and María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara 3. Violence and Women’s Participation in the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Anne C. Bellows and Anna Jenderedjian 4. Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding: Intertwined Subjectivities and Corporate Accountability Lida Lhotska, Veronika Scherbaum and Anne C. Bellows 5. Sustainable Food Systems, Gender, and Participation: Foregrounding Women in the Context of the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Stefanie Lemke and Anne C. Bellows 6. Closing Protection Gaps Through a More Comprehensive Conceptual Framework for the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Flavio L.S. Valente, Ana María Suárez Franco and R. Denisse Córdova Montes Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Chronological Glossary of Human Rights Instruments and Other International Frameworks and Documents Mentioned in This Volume.

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This multi-authored volume, the product of a continuing seminar by the editors and additional authors, exhaustively spans and connects the latest legal, political, economic and sociocultural thinking connecting gender, nutrition and human rights...As in usual in writings building legal background and arguments, there are many redundancies as the authors trace the institutional and documentary background to each topic. This is an advantage, in that individual chapters contain fully developed backgrounds, and individual chapters refer to the others. Ellen Messer, Cambridge University Press

This multi-authored volume, the product of a continuing seminar by the editors and additional authors, exhaustively spans and connects the latest legal, political, economic and sociocultural thinking connecting gender, nutrition and human rights...As in usual in writings building legal background and arguments, there are many redundancies as the authors trace the institutional and documentary background to each topic. This is an advantage, in that individual chapters contain fully developed backgrounds, and individual chapters refer to the others. Ellen Messer, Cambridge University Press The volume of essays introduces several critical feminist perspectives to the debates around food and nutrition security, employing a lens of social justice, and a feminist critique of the structural causes of global food insecurity, which is often treated as a technical problem Emily Hillenbrand, Senior Technical Advisor for Gender and Livelihoods, CARE USA Food Nutrition Security Unit, Atlanta, USA

Author Information

Anne C. Bellows is professor and graduate program director of the Food Studies Program in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition at Syracuse University. Flavio L.S. Valente is the secretary general of FIAN International, based in Heidelberg. Stefanie Lemke joined the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK in 2015. From 2013 to 2015, she was acting chair, Department of Gender and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim. María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara is a research associate at the Department of Gender and Nutrition at the University of Hohenheim.

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