• EXIGIBILIDADE: Mechanisms to claim the human right to adequate food in Brazil (+)

    As a result of multi-sectoral actions and considerable creativity over the past 20 years, Brazil has progressively included the human right to adequate food on its national public agenda. Although poverty, hunger and other violations of the right to food still represent an enormous challenge, the country has gradually advanced in the promotion of right to food claim mechanisms and, to a certain extent, stands out as a role model for the practical realization of this right.

    This study comprises three major chapters: Chapter I presents the different types of claim mechanisms available at national level and addresses more specifically some of the innovative experiences that are being developed from an institutional perspective in Brazil. Chapter II illustrates the international human rights framework to which Brazil is a part and presents existing claim mechanisms at regional and global level. Chapter III raises considerations about the effectiveness of claim mechanisms in Brazil and indicates the strategies needed to strengthen such mechanisms aimed at overcoming right to food violations in different local realities.

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