Hello,
Many thanks for the notification of FAO's 20th Anniversary of the Right to Food Guidelines with your invitation to comment on the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food. Much appreciated.
As the lead author or the Right to Food Case Study: Canada presented in 2004 along with four other case studies from Brazil, India, Uganda and South Africa to FAO in Rome as a discussion document informing the research undertaken prior to the publication of the Voluntary Guidelines, I would now much like to forward my comments.
Herewith as promised my shared response to the Right to Food Guidelines request. I wrote it with Rod MacRae also a food policy consultant on the Canadian case study back in 2004. I trust it sheds light on what and more =adly what has not happened over the last twenty years, and that it is useful.
Many thanks and all good wishes
Graham Riches
Emeritus Professor of Social Work (retired)
University of British Columbia
First World Hunger Revisited. Food Charity or the Right to Food (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Food Bank Nations. Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right Food (New York: Routledge, 2018) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315184012
Graham Riches