This paper gives practical guidance as to how to implement the right to food at the national level, with examples of best practice from various countries. In so doing, it will give many illustrations of a fundamental truth that must be grasped right from the outset: no government will make the right to food a reality unless it pursues with equal resolve the realization of other human rights with which the right to food is inseparably connected, among them the universal rights to freedom of assembly and expression, to safe drinking water, to information, education and the highest attainable standard of health. Both the great importance of all these rights and the deep interdependence among them call for a holistic approach to development.