State Food Crimes

ISBN-13: 9781107133525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 284 str.

Rhoda Howard-Hassmann

Opis

Discusses government policies that cause malnutrition or starvation in North Korea, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and the West Bank and Gaza.

Recenzje

'The author makes a valuable contribution on the topic by presenting a broader interpretation of what state food crime is, and highlights the centrality of previously understudied aspects relating to food security such as citizenship, mobility and property rights and the right to work for adequate access to food. The volume emphasizes the importance of domestic human rights to ensure food insecurity, but also that an international human rights treaty concerning food could still have an effect in safeguarding citizens from regimes which promote policies that increase the threat of food deprivation.' Ida Rudolfsen, Journal of Peace Research

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction and Background: 1. State food crimes; 2. Communist famines; 3. Democracies and famines; Part II. Contemporary Case Studies: 4. North Korea; 5. Zimbabwe; 6. Venezuela; 7. The West Bank and Gaza; Part III. Implications for the International Human Right to Food: 8. International law and the right to food; 9. Sticks and carrots: sanctions and food aid; 10. Interdependent human rights; 11. Liberal democracies and the right to food; 12. A new international treaty on the right to food; References.