Realising the Right to Food by Integrating Human Rights in Poverty Reduction Strategies?

Abstract

Discourses of development and discourses of human rights have evolved in parallel, sharing the same overall aim of increased human well-being, but offering different theoretical frameworks and tools for reaching this aim. The article assesses the efficaciousness of integrating food as a human right thinking in the ongoing poverty reduction processes. A combination of the two adds value to both approaches and emerges more powerful by marrying law and political strategy; however, it provides no more guarantee towards less poverty and hunger than each approach let alone.

Keywords:

• hunger and food insecurity
• poverty reduction strategies
• food as a human right
• Malawi