Volume 24 No. 10 (2024)

Special Issue
Food Justice and Food Sovereignty
in the context of the Right to Food

Editor's Note: Food Sovereignty and Food Rights - Ruth Oniang'o
 https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.ED146

Guest Editorial: The right to food: A fundamental human right and its imperatives - Isaac Oluwatayo
 https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.ED147

Comment: 20 years of Right to Food Guidelines and the challenges of implementing normative frameworks - Njeri Karanu

Info: About the Current Lead Authors

Peer Reviewed Articles

• [1] Twenty-five years of the United Nations General Comment number 12 on the human right to adequate food – malnutrition continues to surge.
  Peter Rukundo and Ruth Oniang'o  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.25400
  [Uganda and Kenya]

• [2] Influence of socio-economic variables and extension inhibitors on food sovereignty in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
  John Effiong  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.24260
  [Nigeria]
  

• [3] Gender role in food rights and sovereignty in West Africa: A rapid review.
  Addo Phyllis et al.  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.24245
  [Ghana]
  

• [4] Agriculture and the youth population in Africa: An under-tapped resource for inclusive development.
  Isaac Oluwatayo and Ayodeji Ojo  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.24235
  [South Africa]
  

• [5] Balancing the right to food and environmental sustainability: A call for holistic transformation.
  Salome Owuonda and Sarah Olembo  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.25405
  [Kenya]
  

• [6] Determining food intake, the requirement, and weighing the relative risk between food secure and insecure households in rural areas of Ethiopia: The case of West Hararghe zone.
  Firew Hailemariam and Aman Kiniso  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.23020
  [Ethiopia]
  

• [7] The global food security conundrum through the lens of the right to food.
  Muringo Gituku  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.24270
  [Kenya]
  

• [8] Seeds and farmers' rights as drivers of change on food systems.
  Tabitha Munyiri  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.25410
  [Kenya]
  

• [9] Effect of road infrastructure on food sovereignty in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
  John Effiong et al.  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.24255
  [Nigeria]
  

• [10] Right to Food Policies, Justice and Sovereignty in Nigeria.
  John Effiong  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.24265
  [Nigeria]
  

• [11] Food sovereignty or food security? which way for sub-Saharan Africa.
  Anne Aswani Musotsi  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.SC017
  [Kenya]
  

• [12] The dominant policy approach to the right to food has been improperly underpinned by a food security paradigm.
  Claudio Schuftan  https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.135.SC018
  [Vietnam]
  

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