Faglige interesser
- Ernæring/Samfunnsernæring, globalt og nasjonalt
- Sammenhenger mellom ernæringsproblemer og de internasjonale menneskerettigheter, spesielt økonomiske, sosiale og kulturelle rettigheter (retten til mat, retten til helse, andre relaterte)
- Global barnefedme og næringsmiddelindustriens rolle i uetisk markedsføring til barn
- Kapasitetsoppbygging omkring matsikkerhet, samfunnsernæring og menneskerettigheter
Undervisning
- ERN3200 - Forebyggende og klinisk ernæring
Ved OsloMet:
- MAME 4330: Food, Globalisation and Governance
- MAME 4530: Nutrition and Human Rights
Bakgrunn
Utdanning
- Postgraduate Academic Diploma in Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, 1965-66
- Cand.real. Zoology (Zoophysiology), University of Oslo, 1962
Ansettelser
- Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Department of Nutrition (inntil 1997 ved Ernæringslinjen under Nordisk Høgskole for Husholdsvitenskap administrert av UiO), seniortilknyttet fra 2005, midlertidig ansatt 2 mnd Januar-Februar 2011.
- Teknisk rådgiver i ernæring i det Internasjonale Fond for Landbruksutvikling (IFAD) i Roma, September 1989-Mars 1994 (med permisjon fra UiO).
- Konsulent, Norges Almenvitenskapelige Forskningsråd/Rådet for anvendt samfunnsplanlegging (RFSP) 2 mnd in 1981 for å lage utkast til forskningsprogram om menneskerettigheter og økonomiske, sosiale og kulturelle rettigheter som utviklet av en ekspertgruppe.
- Konsulent for FN-oppdrag (UN Protein-Calorie Advisory Group, PAG) for å lede at afrikansk-norsk team for utarbeidelse av den første rapport i FN-systemet om ”Women in Food Production, Food Handling and Nutrition”, permisjon halvannet år fra UiO 1976-77.
- Universitetsstipendiat, Institutt for ernæringsforsking, 1963-1966; deretter universitetslektor; førstestilling fra 1983 (førsteamanuensis).
Priser
- Kommandør av Den Kgl. Norske Fortjenstorden for bidrag til utviklingen av retten til mat som en menneskerettighet, 2015
- Studentparlamentets Internasjonaliseringspris, 2005
Verv
- Styremedlem International Foundation for Science (IFS), 2008-2016
- Styremedlem Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus. 2001-2005
- Styremedlem International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., 1996-2003
- Styremedlem Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt (NUPI). 1995-1998
- Leder, Senter for Internasjonale utviklingsstudier (SIU), Universitetet i Oslo. 1981-88
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- Samarbeid:
- Sentral i den tidlige utvikling av flere Nord-Sør samarbeidsprogrammer mellom UiO og akademiske institusjoner i den tredje verden: Generelt hva angår Zimbabwe, Mali; spesielt for ernæring/matsikkerhet i Sri Lanka, Mali, Sør-Afrika: i sistnevnte om studentmobilitet (University of KwaZuluNatal; University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University)og masterveiledning (UCT and SU); samarbeid med Community Law Centre ved University of the Western Cape (UWC) om promotering av retten til mat i ernæringsprogrammer ved Sør-afrikanske universiteter.
- Fra 2010 Akademisk koordinator i NOMA-finansiert master program om “Nutrition, Human Rights and Governance” med Stellenbosch Universitet i Sør-Afrika og Makerere Universitet i Uganda, 2010-2014.
Emneord:
Ernæring,
Mor og barn,
Ernæringspolitikk,
Styresett,
Menneskerettigheter,
Retten til mat/Retten til helse
Publikasjoner
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Atukunda, Prudence; Eide, Wenche Barth; Kardel, Kristin Reimers; Iversen, Per Ole & Westerberg, Ane Cecilie
(2021).
Unlocking the potential for achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 – “Zero Hunger” - in Africa: Targets, strategies, synergies and challenges.
Food & Nutrition Research (FNR).
ISSN 1654-6628.
65.
doi:
10.29219/fnr.v65.7686.
Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
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Eide, Asbjørn & Eide, Wenche Barth
(2020).
Chapter 9: Can the United Nations system be mobilized to promote human rights-based approaches in preventing and ending childhood obesity?
I Garde, Amandine; Curtis, Joshua & De Schutter, Olivier (Red.),
Ending Childhood Obesity. A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Economic and Human Rights Law..
Edward Elgar Publishing.
ISSN 9781788114011.
s. 219–250.
doi:
10.4337/9781788114028.00016.
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Marais, M.L.; McLachlan, M.H. & Eide, Wenche Barth
(2016).
The NOMA track module on nutrition, human rights and governance: Part 2. A transnational curriculum using a human rights-based approach to foster key competencies in nutrition professionals.
African Journal of Health Professions Education.
ISSN 2078-5127.
8(2),
s. 160 –165.
doi:
10.7196/AJHPE.2016.v8i2.554.
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Marais, M.L.; McLachlan, M.H. & Eide, Wenche Barth
(2016).
The NOMA track module on nutrition, human rights and governance: Part 1. Perceptions held by Master’s students.
African Journal of Health Professions Education.
ISSN 2078-5127.
8(2),
s. 152–159.
Vis sammendrag
Background. In response to the challenge of the global health needs of the 21st century, four academic institutions in Norway, South Africa and Uganda, each offering a Master’s degree in nutrition, collaboratively developed the NOrwegian MAsters (NOMA) track module on nutrition, human rights and governance, integrating a human rights-based approach into graduate education in nutrition.
Objective. To capture students’ perceptions about the NOMA track module, focusing on the development of key competencies.
Methods. Employing a qualitative approach, 20 (91% response rate) in-depth telephonic interviews were conducted with participating students, voice
recorded and transcribed. Through an inductive process, emerging themes were used to compile a code list for content analysis of the transcribed text.
Relevant themes were reported according to the professionals’ roles described by the CanMEDS competency framework.
Results. Participation in the module enhanced key competencies in the students, e.g. communication skills and the adoption of a holistic approach to interaction with people or communities. Their role as collaborator was enhanced by their learning to embrace diversity and cultural differences and similarities. Students had to adapt to different cultures and educational systems. They were inspired to contribute in diverse contexts and act as agents for change in the organisations in which they may work or act as leaders or co-ordinators during interaction with community groups and policy makers. Higher education institutions offering transnational modules should support lecturers to manage the inherent diversity in the classroom as a way of enhancing student performance.
Conclusion. The development of future transprofessional modules will benefit from the inclusion of desirable key competencies as part of the module
outcomes by following a competency by design process.
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Rendal Torgersen, Karianne; Eide, Wenche Barth; Marais, Maritha & Iversen, Per Ole
(2014).
THE ROLE OF GRANDMOTHERS AS THE PRIMARY CAREGIVERS IN POOR HOUSEHOLDS AND THEIR OWN RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD: EXAMINING TWO COMMUNITIES IN THE BREEDE VALLEY, WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA.
East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights.
ISSN 1021-8858.
20,
s. 414–436.
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Karlsen, Elisabeth; Aurdal, Kristine Stray; Terragni, Laura; Eide, Wenche Barth & Iversen, Per Ole
(2013).
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Challenges and Opportunities in the Process of Fulfilling Nursing Home Residents’ Right to Adequate Food.
Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
ISSN 1891-8131.
s. 402–427.
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Stupar, Dijana; Eide, Wenche Barth; Bourne, Lesley; Hendricks, Michael; Iversen, Per Ole & Wandel, Margareta
(2012).
The nutrition transition and the human right to adequate food for adolescents in the Cape Town metropolitan area: Implications for nutrition policy.
Food Policy.
ISSN 0306-9192.
37(3),
s. 199–206.
doi:
10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.02.007.
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Andresen, Ellen Cecilie; Wandel, Margareta; Eide, Wenche Barth; Herselman, M & Iversen, Per Ole
(2009).
Delivery of the Nutrition Supplementation Programme in the Cape Town metropolitan area from the perspective of mothers of under-fives: A qualitative study.
South African Journal of Child Health.
ISSN 1994-3032.
3(3),
s. 90–95.
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Eide, Wenche Barth; Oshaug, Arne & Sidibe, Ousmane
(2003).
Mobilising states and other actors for a rights-based approach to food and nutritional health,
Moderne aspects of nutrition : present knowledge and future perspectives.
Krager.
s. 141–142.
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Oshaug, Arne & Eide, Wenche Barth
(2003).
The long process of giving content to an economic, social and cultural right : twenty-five years with the case of the right to adequate food,
Human rights and criminal justice for the downtrodden.
Marinus Nijhoff Publishers.
s. 325–369.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2002).
Nutrition and Human Rights,
Nutrition: A Foundation for Development.
UN ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition.
Vis sammendrag
A Foundation For Development is a compilation of briefs on of the latest research findings in nutrition as they relate to other development sectors. The briefs are designed to facilitate dialogue between nutrition and other development professionals. They are organized both as a complete set or as stand-alone briefs that make the case for integrating nutrition into the work of the development community. Brief 10 on Nutrition and Human Rights discusses how the new human rights paradigm fits well with the focus on the human being in the nutrition community and how nutrition can help strengthen the advancement of the right to adequate food as well as other eonomic, social and cultural rights.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2002).
Nutrition and Human Rights,
Nutrition: A Foundation for Development.
UN ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition.
Vis sammendrag
A Foundation For Development is a compilation of briefs on of the latest research findings in nutrition as they relate to other development sectors. The briefs are designed to facilitate dialogue between nutrition and other development professionals. They are organized both as a complete set or as stand-alone briefs that make the case for integrating nutrition into the work of the development community. Brief 10 on Nutrition and Human Rights discusses how the new human rights paradigm fits well with the focus on the human being in the nutrition community and how nutrition can help strengthen the advancement of the right to adequate food as well as other eonomic, social and cultural rights.
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Eide, Wenche Barth; Damman, Siri; Silkoset, Unni; Helsing, Elisabet & Oshaug, Arne
(2002).
Training for contemporary understanding of the human nutrition condition : globalisation, human rights and governance as dimensions of the study and practice of public nutrition in the 21st centruy - experiences from recent educational innovations at the University of Oslo.
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2(1),
s. 46–55.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2001).
Breaking Conceptual and Methodological Ground: Promoting the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition. An example of activism with an academic base.
Ecology of Food and Nutrition.
ISSN 0367-0244.
40(6),
s. 571–595.
Vis sammendrag
The paper provides highlights of the evolving international "nutrition activism" conducted over two decades that recognises access to adequate food, health and care as human rights embedded in international human rights law. The basic proposition is that truly rights-based approaches offer new opportunities for strengthening monitoring, advocacy and accountability in promoting food and nutrition activism, alike. Nutrition scholars may contribute to empirical and policy research on indicators and evidence of fulfilment or non-fulfilment of obligations by states and other actors, in protecting and promoting these rights as preconditions for freedom from hunger and nutritional wellbeing. Also, scholars' allotment of time to certain activities that may be perceived by peers as lying outside legitimised academic activities including networking, lobbying and advocacy, may prove critical in driving some of the very processes on which empirical and policy research would in turn be based.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Oshaug, Arne
(1999).
The nature and levels of state involvement in governance towards food security. A conceptual, normative approach with practical implications.
I Ogunrinade, Ade & May, Julian (Red.),
Not By Bread Alone: Food Security and Governance in Africa.
University of Witvatersrand Press, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Vis sammendrag
The chapter is a conceptual contribution to the discussion on
governance for food security, taking into consideration the broad
understanding of governance as extending into a partnership between the
state and other actors, notably within the civil society of non-state
actors, as well as actors from the private (commercial) sector. It
discusses the dynamics of this partnership and the critical need for
human resource building to adress and maintain the appropriate balance
between its actors in the strive for food security. The paper suggests
that good theoretical frameworks, based on a comprehensive set of
principles and values in the public interest, can aid in establishing
meaningful interdisciplinary and intersectoral dialogue, where theory
should be linked with first hand experience and praxis towards
visionary, but at the same time practical tools for governance for food
security.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Kracht, Uwe
(1999).
The International Code on the Human Right to Adequate Food: stepping stone on the road to rights-based development.
Institut International Jacques Maritain, Notes ET Documents, XXIVième année.
Vis sammendrag
The paper analyses the role played by the International Code of Conduct on the Human Right to Adequate Food, produced by international NGOs within less than a year after the World Food Summit in 1996. The Code is a major response from the NGO community to the Summit's call for giving operational meaning to the right to food and the possibility for working out 'voluntary guidelines' for its implementation. The paper reviews and analyses the impact made by the Code on the UN machinery concerned with human rights, food, nutrition and development. While yet to be adopted, as a "working tool" it has facilitated broadly-based agreement on the contents of the right to food both in and out of the UN and is assumed to assist the identification of responsibilities by various actors - states, private sector, civil society, and international development organisations - towards the realisation of the right to food for all. The paper also discusses the Code of Conduct on the right to food in relation to other codes established by humanitarian organisations, and points to the growing need for greater convergence of human rights and humanitarian law in response to the conflicts of our times.
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Eide, Wenche Barth; Alfredsson, Gudmundur & Oshaug, Arne
(1996).
Human resource building for the promotion of nutrition rights.
Food Policy.
ISSN 0306-9192.
21,
s. 139–152.
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Oshaug, Arne; Eide, Wenche Barth & Eide, Asbjørn
(1994).
Human rights: a normative basis for food and nutrition policies.
Food Policy.
ISSN 0306-9192.
19,
s. 491–516.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2015).
Chapter 4.
Strengthening food security through human rights: A moral and legal imperative and practical opportunity.
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Routledge.
ISBN 978-0-415-82255-8.
21 s.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Kracht, Uwe
(2007).
Food and Human Rights in Development: Evolving Issues and Emerging Applications, volume 2.
Intersentia.
ISBN 978-90-5095-459-4.
566 s.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Kracht, Uwe
(2006).
Food and Human Rights in Development. Volume 2: Envolving issues and emerging applications.
Intersentia.
ISBN 90-5095-459-6.
450 s.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Kracht, Uwe
(2005).
Food and Human Rights in Development, Volume 1; Legal and institutional dimensions and selected topics.
Intersentia.
ISBN 90-5095-385-9.
528 s.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Kracht,, U.
(2005).
Food and Human Rights in Development Volume I: Legal and Institutional dimensions.
Intersentia.
ISBN 90-5095-385-9.
528 s.
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Eide, Asbjørn & Eide, Wenche Barth
(1999).
Article 25 - the right to an adequate standard of living.
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
ISBN 90-411-1168-9.
28 s.
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Eide, Wenche Barth; Torheim, Liv Elin; Løvhaug, Anne Lene & Eide, Asbjørn
(2017).
Progress in defining and promoting respect for human rights in the food and nutrition-relevant business sector.
UNSCN News.
s. 95–101.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Maunder, Eleni M.W.
(2016).
A Human rights-Based Approach to Community and Public Nutrition. Theoretical Underpinnings and Evolving Experiences.
I Temple, Norman J (Red.),
Community Nutrition for Developing Countries.
AU Press and UNISA.
ISSN 978-1927356111.
doi:
10.15215/aupress/9781927356111.01.
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Torheim, Liv Elin; Eide, Wenche Barth; Granheim, Sabrina IDO; Oshaug, Arne; Roalkvam, Sidsel & Afrim-Narh, Abraham Tetteh
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(2014).
“Big Food”challenges: Can the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights serve to promote the human rights to adequate food and health?
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2013).
SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR FOOD SECURITY: THE RIGHT OF VULNERABLE MOTHERS TO SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROMOTING ADEQUATE SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism.
ISSN 0250-6807.
63,
s. 1095–1095.
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Rendal, K.T.; Iversen, Per Ole; Eide, Wenche Barth & Marais, M.L.
(2013).
HOW DOES THE ROLE OF GRANDMOTHERS AS PRIMARY CAREGIVERS IN POOR HOUSEHOLDS, COMPROMISE THEIR OWN RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD?
Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism.
ISSN 0250-6807.
63,
s. 670–670.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2009).
FRAMING NUTRITION POLICIES AND ACTION THROUGH GOVERNANCE BASED ON HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND PRINCIPLES: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROGRESS.
Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism.
ISSN 0250-6807.
55,
s. 36–37.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2002).
Gender and Nutrition.
HUNGRY for what is right.
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Vis sammendrag
Gender differences in access to resources, including resources for food (ownership to land, capital, technology) as well as to adequate food itself, have been well demonstrated. They are often rooted in clear discriminatory practices, which may be culturally based or coming about as effects of ¿modernisation¿ and economic and social change, usually a combination of both. The importance of understanding the impact of gender differences on the nutrition of women themselves has been accentuated in recent years through the new insights and hypothesis that a malnourished mother may give birth to a child who is already malnourished from within the womb. Newer insights point to a possible link between malnutrition during foetal life and a subsequent ¿programming¿ of that individual for greater susceptibility to diseases also in later life, of a kind that one earlier connected with affluence in the richer countries - heart disease, obesity and diabetes. This underscores the enormous importance of good nutrition for women and the girl child, soon to be a mother. This should be addressed under a human rights perspective and include arrangements to end possible gender-discriminatory feeding practices at a critical period in life, with long-term and possibly inter-generational nutritional consequences for a healthier population.
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Eide, Wenche Barth; Oshaug, Arne & Sidibe, Ousmane
(2001).
Mobilising states and other actors for a right-based approach to food and nutrition - exploring some critical aspects of the process.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2001).
Nutrition from below and from above. Bokanmeldelse: Thomas J. Marchione (ed.): Scaling Up, Scaling Down. Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries. Gordon and Breach Publishers[/Overseas Publishers Association, Amsteldijk, The Netherlands], 1999.
Scandinavian Journal of Nutrition.
ISSN 1102-6480.
45(3),
s. 37–37.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2001).
World Food System - Serving all or serving some?
[Radio].
USA World Food Day Teleconference/George Washington University, Washington DC : US National World Food Day Committee.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(2001).
Promoting nutrition security goals: defining and assessing accountability through a human rights approach The contribution of community capacity development for monitoring aspects of the realisation of the rights to food, health and care for nutritional well-being.
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Eide, Wenche Barth
(1999).
The right to food as a human right - in Europe, too?
Vis sammendrag
The paper reviews the growing opportunities for approaching food and nutrition policy and programmes from a human rights perspective. Recommendations made by the World Food Summit in 1996, the 1997 Reform Programme for the United Nations System, and the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1998, have led to considerable international efforts to clarify how to monitor, promote and protect the right to food and nutrition as part of the wider human rights framework under international law. Activities have also recently been set in motion in a few countries to identify legislative and administrative steps to comply with important international conventions containing provisions on the right to food and nutrition. Much of the concern and debate on linkages between human rights and human and social development have been related to hunger and malnutrition in third world countries. Is there a similar reason for adoption of a human rights approach to food and nutrition issues in Europe? The paper provides arguments for a positive answer and shows how European countries that have ratified relevant international conventions are under legal obligation to help ensure the realization of everybody's right to adequate food and to good nutrition.
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Eide, Wenche Barth & Valente, Flavio Luis Schieck
(1998).
Operationalising Rights and 0bligations in the Fields, Nutrition, Water and Health - and their Interconnections.
Vis sammendrag
The paper illustrates a fundamental axiom in the conceptualization and
language of human rights: their interrelatedness, interdependence and
indivisibility. Food, nutrition, water and health are not discrete
goods to be enjoyed one-by-one. The full enjoyment of each right
depends on the enjoyment of all of the others in a situation of
mutually reinforcing conditions. This is a strength, but can pose
problems when trying to delineate the more precise content of each. A
global process is now needed of states and non-state actors learning
from each other how to translate this universality to local contexts
and opportunities. This can only be done from within a country itself
while the international community can propose and provide some useful
tools. Examples of such tools are given, these can in turn be refined
in the global-national interactive process of operationalizing the
rights to food, nutrition, water, health and other components of the
right to an adequate standard of living or livelihood security. The
evolving case of Brazil is discussed to demonstrate how key human
development concerns is being integrating with economic, social and
cultural rights, starting with the right to food and nutrition.
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3. sep. 2018 23:05