To successfully combat universal malnutrition in all its forms, including the negative effects of the "nutrition transition", the first step is recognizing nutrition as an essential component of the human right to adequate food, reinforced by monitoring, accountability and transparency mechanisms.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Food & Nutrition
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Conclusion / Recommendation
Reference
SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/282, para. 93.