Nutrition and Human rights

The Right to Food and Access to Natural Resources

Right to Food Studies are a series of articles and reports on right to food related issues of contemporary interest in the areas of policy, legislation, agriculture, rural development, biodiversity, environment and natural resource management.

The findings of this study suggest that the right to food has important implications for resource-access policies, laws and programmes. The right to food is realized where individuals and groups have access to adequate (i.e., sufficient, safe and nutritious) food. Such access depends on using diverse combinations of different livelihood assets, such as human, social, physical, natural and financial capital. Access to natural resources like land, water and forests is therefore a key element of livelihood strategies (“natural capital”), together with other elements such as access to employment and/or credit (“financial capital”).

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