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Exigibilidade: Mechanisms to claim the human right to adequate food in Brazil

Year of publication 2011

Pages 116

Author Thaís Franceschini, Valéria Burity and Luisa Cruz

Publisher Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-106814-4

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Exigibilidade study is an advocacy tool which provides practical examples on how to implement the right to food at country level. The study underlines the very important role of the civil society in creating mechanisms to make the state accountable for violations of the right to adequate food. In Brazil, important institutional advances towards the development of instruments to claim, investigate and monitor the realization of the right to food have been set up. This document aims at present ing those innovative mechanisms, so that the civil society and governments in other countries can benefit from these experiences.

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