Fragile pillars of food security: Exploring the challenges of availability, accessibility, and quality for global food regime

Ray, Ipsita and Shukla, Anshuman (2024) Fragile pillars of food security: Exploring the challenges of availability, accessibility, and quality for global food regime. Brazilian Journal of International Law, 27 (2). pp. 114-128. ISSN 2237-1036

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Abstract

Hunger is a critical issue impacting a greater part of the world. Food distribution systems are failing millions of people, thereby leading to the crisis of food security. Various international declarations, like the UDHR and the ICESCR, have designated food and basic nutrition as integral elements of human rights. Therefore, provision for adequate and affordable food to all has become the dominant value for relevant regulatory and policy regimes. The problem is particularly sensitive to war-like events as is revealed by troubling statistics emerging against the backdrop of Covid-19, Russia-Ukraine War, and Israel-Hamas crisis. All these recent events have increased global food security concerns. This paper evaluates the fragile nature of food security in its multidisciplinary dimension. It identifies food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and environmental vulnerability as the intrinsic obstacles to any regulatory intervention. In this context, the paper analyzes challenges to food accessibility as the core problem of right to food and food sovereignty regimes. It means the connection between the structural notion of accessibility and the legal concept of right to food through food sovereignty. It analyzes the causal links between the problem of food security and other fundamental policy challenges, like poverty, unemployment, and social inequality. The international nature of the crisis is also manifested in the classical developed-developing nations' divide. It, consequently, highlights the structural inefficiencies of the powerful international bodies, like the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF. The comprehensive nature of the problem is explored through the idea of ​​food sovereignty, which means the cultural sensitivity of food and nutrition. Food insecurity is not merely a productivity problem. The paper, therefore, suggests a consumer-centric model of food distribution and accessibility as an optimal and practical model for public policy and regulations.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: food security | food sovereignty | nutrition | social inequality
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Health (Social sciences)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Dharmveer Modi
Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2025 08:21
Last Modified: 09 Jan 2025 08:21
Official URL: https://www.jus.uniceub.br/rdi/article/view/9700/0
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8977

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