Second, States have an obligation to protect the right to food. They must ensure that enterprises or individuals do not deprive individuals of their access to adequate food. In the context of fisheries policies, this requires States, in particular, to protect the access rights of traditional fishing communities from industrial fishing and to control private actors that could affect the lands, territories and water on which these communities depend.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Type de document
Special Procedures' report
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
Environment
Food & Nutrition
Governance & Rule of Law
Année
2012
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/268, para. 40.