engleski

Hunger as a Social Problem - the Right to Food in a Time of Crisis

The right to food has been a fundamental human right guaranteed by relevant universal sources for more than seven and a half decades, but recent developments suggest not only the need to reconsider its content and scope of application, but also the permanent fear that in such conditions, human civilisation may face irreversible processes the consequences of which will potentially impose a possible reinterpretation of social justice, solidarity and international cooperation. The problem of hunger and food insecurity is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, so it cannot be talked about, nor can it be analysed exclusively through specialised areas of public international law, human rights law, trade law, environmental law, sociology, economics, etc. Multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of the issue, the format and scope of this paper, but also our competencies, suggest that we will focus only on the social (and partly economic) implications of the right to food in the context of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the consequences and risks such crises have had on food production processes since March 2020 (the problem of free movement of labour and labour shortage, risk response, etc.). There is no doubt that hunger-related problems and modalities used to solve them are discussed from different starting positions in developed and highly developed societies in relation to poor parts of the world, because in the former, the identified individual risks will be mitigated by relatively well-developed social security systems, i.e. through various forms of social assistance, food stamps and vouchers, soup kitchens, and social supermarkets, whereas in poor parts of the world, due to deficient, extremely vulnerable or non-existent or underdeveloped social security systems, most of the population at risk of starvation will depend on international humanitarian relief, NGOs and religious organisations, and almost exclusively on internationally funded programmes or activities carried out by United Nations specialised agencies.

right to food, social problem, time of crisis

nije evidentirano