Fulfilling the Right to Food for South Africa: Justice, Security, Sovereignty and the Politics of Malnutrition

World Nutrition

Anne Marie Thompson Thow¹  Busiso Helard Moyo² 

[1] ;University of the Western Cape;

关键词: right to food;    food justice;    South Africa;    food security;    nutrition;    food sovereignty;   

DOI  :  10.26596/wn.2020113112-152

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Despite South Africa’s celebrated constitutional commitments that have expanded and deepened South Africa’s commitment to realise socio-economic rights, limited progress in implementing right to food policies stands to compromise the country’s developmental path. If not a deliberate policy choice, the persistence of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms is a deep policy failure.  Food system transformation in South Africa requires addressing wider issues of who controls the food supply, thus influencing the food chain and the food choices of the individual and communities. This paper examines three global rights-based paradigms – ‘food justice’, ‘food security’ and ‘food sovereignty’ – that inform activism on the right to food globally and their relevance to food system change in South Africa; for both fulfilling the right to food and addressing all forms of malnutrition. We conclude that the emerging concept of food sovereignty has important yet largely unexplored possibilities for democratically managing food systems for better health outcomes.

【 授权许可】

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