Paper/Proposal Title
Community Food Security as a Microcosm of Human Rights
Location
River Campus, Room M2006
Start Date
10-4-2013 1:00 PM
Abstract
The Community Food Security (CFS) movement, when understood as demanding a particular kind of Environmental Justice (EJ), can illustrate how a variety of human rights are integrated into a comprehensive demand for justice. Differing from individual or household food security that focuses on food access alone, CFS’s breadth covers the systems by which food access is supported or thwarted. This attention to systems can show the interrelations of many different human rights across the “generations” of rights. Such rights include those to life, food, a living wage, healthy living and working conditions, intellectual property, and real property. This recommends broader, deeper, and integrative action that can support human rights in many diverse contexts. It further provides potential explanation for the unintended consequences that result in continued injustice when piecemeal action is taken.
By locating CFS within EJ, the opportunity to make clearer theoretical contributions and highlight the connections to and power of human rights analyses in this work will come to the fore. Doing so represents a contribution to both CFS theory and human rights theory as these issues are generally only superficially connected. This project is intended to explore these ideas, make some of these connections, and extend the theoretical foundations of CFS.
Community Food Security as a Microcosm of Human Rights
River Campus, Room M2006
The Community Food Security (CFS) movement, when understood as demanding a particular kind of Environmental Justice (EJ), can illustrate how a variety of human rights are integrated into a comprehensive demand for justice. Differing from individual or household food security that focuses on food access alone, CFS’s breadth covers the systems by which food access is supported or thwarted. This attention to systems can show the interrelations of many different human rights across the “generations” of rights. Such rights include those to life, food, a living wage, healthy living and working conditions, intellectual property, and real property. This recommends broader, deeper, and integrative action that can support human rights in many diverse contexts. It further provides potential explanation for the unintended consequences that result in continued injustice when piecemeal action is taken.
By locating CFS within EJ, the opportunity to make clearer theoretical contributions and highlight the connections to and power of human rights analyses in this work will come to the fore. Doing so represents a contribution to both CFS theory and human rights theory as these issues are generally only superficially connected. This project is intended to explore these ideas, make some of these connections, and extend the theoretical foundations of CFS.
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