There is no more important policy challenge than ensuring food security for all. In this sense, the right to food defined by international law in various sources, some of a purely programmatic value, others binding, as the right to have regular, permanent and free access, to a diet that is not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively adequate and sufficient, therefore indicates the right to freedom from hunger, on the one hand, and the right to proper nutrition, on the other. Infact “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. Reducing poverty and hunger in the world are objectives, or rather challenges, extremely difficult to achieve, since they are intimately connected and interdependent concepts. Reducing poverty is a key element in a policy for food security, because poor people spend such a large share of their incomes on food, leaving them vulnerable to high food prices, and many poor people obtain much of their income from farming, leaving them vulnerable to declines in agricultural output. Lastly, the difficult task of states to ensure sufficient food for all is added to the need to tackle the dramatic challenge for the food sector, following the recent Covid-19 pandemic, which has significantly impacted the entire agri-food system. , consequently affecting the actual availability of food, especially for the poor of the world. The European executive claims the 'leading role' of the EU in tackling global food crises and is committed to strengthening the link between humanitarian aid, peace and development. But aid from the EU and its member states is totally insufficient for the current food crisis. The work intends to investigate the role of public and private intervention in the difficult pursuit of fight against hunger, for a strategic and integrated approach, in particular in the Italian legal system (and in the Legislative Decree no. 147 of 2017 on the fight against poverty. In this perspective, the system of public aid must be rethought, food waste reduced and a system of private individuals encouraged to support the public system in aid for the distribution of food to the poor.
Reducing Poverty and Food Security: an innovative e solidarity approach towards future generations, in UNICART V, International Conference Academic Research & Tourism, "Food, Sustainability, Nutrition and Tourism", 23-25 novembre 2021, Roma, Proceedings Book, Bruxelles, 2021, pp. 343-352;
G. Mastrodonato
2021-01-01
Abstract
There is no more important policy challenge than ensuring food security for all. In this sense, the right to food defined by international law in various sources, some of a purely programmatic value, others binding, as the right to have regular, permanent and free access, to a diet that is not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively adequate and sufficient, therefore indicates the right to freedom from hunger, on the one hand, and the right to proper nutrition, on the other. Infact “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. Reducing poverty and hunger in the world are objectives, or rather challenges, extremely difficult to achieve, since they are intimately connected and interdependent concepts. Reducing poverty is a key element in a policy for food security, because poor people spend such a large share of their incomes on food, leaving them vulnerable to high food prices, and many poor people obtain much of their income from farming, leaving them vulnerable to declines in agricultural output. Lastly, the difficult task of states to ensure sufficient food for all is added to the need to tackle the dramatic challenge for the food sector, following the recent Covid-19 pandemic, which has significantly impacted the entire agri-food system. , consequently affecting the actual availability of food, especially for the poor of the world. The European executive claims the 'leading role' of the EU in tackling global food crises and is committed to strengthening the link between humanitarian aid, peace and development. But aid from the EU and its member states is totally insufficient for the current food crisis. The work intends to investigate the role of public and private intervention in the difficult pursuit of fight against hunger, for a strategic and integrated approach, in particular in the Italian legal system (and in the Legislative Decree no. 147 of 2017 on the fight against poverty. In this perspective, the system of public aid must be rethought, food waste reduced and a system of private individuals encouraged to support the public system in aid for the distribution of food to the poor.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
