Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.

MANJU BALANA Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (Rajasthan), India PRADEEP BHARGAVA Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (Rajasthan), India LYNN BROWN Rural Development Specialist, World Bank, USA ANDREW CHARMAN Director, Sustainable Livelihood Consultants, Cape Town, South Africa JOHN CURRY Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Gender and Development Division, Rome, Italy ALESSANDRA GARBERO, Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Gender and Development Division, Rome, Italy UGO GENTILINI Policy Economist, Social Protection and Livelihoods Service, UN World Food Programme (WFP) JAMES HODGE Engagement Manager at Genesis Analytics; Seasonal Lecturer, WITS JOHN HOURIHAN Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Gender and Development Division, Rome, Italy JOSEPH T. KARUGIA Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya YIANNA LAMBROU Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Gender and Development Division, Rome, Italy REGINA LAUB Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Gender and Development Division, Rome, Italy JOHN UHURU MANYENGO Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kakamega, Kenya WILLIS OLUOCH-KOSURA Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya ISABELLA RAE Right to Food Consultant, Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO) NIRA RAMACHANDRAN Consultant, Unicef, New Delhi, India K. L. SHARMA School of Economics, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji SHANNON STOKES Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Gender and Development Division, Rome, Italy JULIAN THOMAS Former Coordinator, Right to Food Unit, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ANDREW THORNE-LYMAN Public Health Nutrition Officer, Headquarters of the World Food Programme MARGRET VIDAR Legal Officer, Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO) S. VIVEK Graduate Student, Syracuse University, USA GUANGHUA WAN Senior Research Fellow, Project Director and Director for Visiting Fellowship and Internship Programme, UNU-WIDER, Finland JULLIET WANJIKU World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya PATRICK WEBB Former Chief of Nutrition for WFP; Dean for Academic Affairs, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, USA ESTHER SILVANA WIEGERS Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Gender and Development Division, Rome, Italy ZHANGYUE ZHOU Associate Professor in Business Studies, School of Business, James Cook University, Australia