The right to an adequate diet: the agriculture-food-health nexus 2012, para. 4
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- Since the 1960s, food security has been linked largely to production, while the links to nutrition were often neglected. Hunger and malnutrition were equated with a lack of calorie intake. In the face of widespread global hunger, this focus was perhaps understandable. But this prompted an overemphasis on increasing agricultural outputs and lowering food prices, while scant attention was paid to ensuring the availability of and accessibility to a wide range of diverse foods containing the micronutrients necessary for the full physical and mental development of children, and for adults to lead healthy and productive lives. In other words, because addressing protein-calorie malnutrition was seen as the major challenge, the requirement of dietary adequacy was neglected. In addition, beyond making foodstuffs available at low prices, the other functions of agriculture-to ensure decent incomes to food producers and to maintain the ecosystems-were not considered.
- 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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/59, para. 4.
- Paragraph number
- 4
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