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Chapter 8. The Challenge of Ensuring Food Security: Global Perspectives and Evidence from India

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© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. LIST OF FIGURES xi
  4. LIST OF MAPS xiii
  5. LIST OF TABLES AND BOXES xv
  6. Contributors xvii
  7. Preface xxiii
  8. Introduction: Making Sense of the Multiple and Complex Pathways by which Human Rights Are Realized 1
  9. PART ONE: Promises and Challenges of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) Realization at the International Level
  10. Chapter 1. Do Non–Human Rights Regimes Undermine the Achievement of Economic and Social Rights? 29
  11. Chapter 2. Linking Law and Economics: Translating Economic and Social Human Rights Norms into Public Policy 49
  12. Chapter 3. Advances and Ongoing Challenges in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights within the Inter-American System and the United Nations Special Procedures System 69
  13. PART TWO The Role of Domestic Law and Courts in ESCR Realization
  14. Chapter 4. The Impact of Legal Strategies for Claiming Economic and Social Rights 87
  15. Chapter 5. The Role of Human Rights Law in Protecting Environmental Rights in South Asia 105
  16. Chapter 6. The Morality of Law: The Case against Deportation of Settled Immigrants 127
  17. PART THREE Beyond Judicial Mechanisms as Means to ESCR Realization
  18. Chapter 7. Social Movements and the Expansion of Economic and Social Human Rights Advocacy among International NGOs 149
  19. Chapter 8. The Challenge of Ensuring Food Security: Global Perspectives and Evidence from India 171
  20. Chapter 9. Achieving Rights to Land, Water, and Health in Post- Apartheid South Africa 199
  21. Chapter 10. Social Accountability in the World Bank: How Does It Overlap with Human Rights? 219
  22. PART FOUR Measuring ESCR Realization
  23. Chapter 11. Making the Principle of Progressive Realization Operational: The SERF Index, an Index for Monitoring State Fulfillment of Economic and Social Rights Obligations 239
  24. Chapter 12. Deepening Our Understanding of Rights Realization through Disaggregation and Mapping Integrating Census Data and Participatory GIS 265
  25. Chapter 13. Studying Courts in Context: The Role of Nonjudicial Institutional and Socio-Political Realities 291
  26. Conclusion: Emerging Possibilities for Social Transformation 319
  27. Index 355
Closing the Rights Gap
This chapter is in the book Closing the Rights Gap
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520958920-014

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. LIST OF FIGURES xi
  4. LIST OF MAPS xiii
  5. LIST OF TABLES AND BOXES xv
  6. Contributors xvii
  7. Preface xxiii
  8. Introduction: Making Sense of the Multiple and Complex Pathways by which Human Rights Are Realized 1
  9. PART ONE: Promises and Challenges of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) Realization at the International Level
  10. Chapter 1. Do Non–Human Rights Regimes Undermine the Achievement of Economic and Social Rights? 29
  11. Chapter 2. Linking Law and Economics: Translating Economic and Social Human Rights Norms into Public Policy 49
  12. Chapter 3. Advances and Ongoing Challenges in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights within the Inter-American System and the United Nations Special Procedures System 69
  13. PART TWO The Role of Domestic Law and Courts in ESCR Realization
  14. Chapter 4. The Impact of Legal Strategies for Claiming Economic and Social Rights 87
  15. Chapter 5. The Role of Human Rights Law in Protecting Environmental Rights in South Asia 105
  16. Chapter 6. The Morality of Law: The Case against Deportation of Settled Immigrants 127
  17. PART THREE Beyond Judicial Mechanisms as Means to ESCR Realization
  18. Chapter 7. Social Movements and the Expansion of Economic and Social Human Rights Advocacy among International NGOs 149
  19. Chapter 8. The Challenge of Ensuring Food Security: Global Perspectives and Evidence from India 171
  20. Chapter 9. Achieving Rights to Land, Water, and Health in Post- Apartheid South Africa 199
  21. Chapter 10. Social Accountability in the World Bank: How Does It Overlap with Human Rights? 219
  22. PART FOUR Measuring ESCR Realization
  23. Chapter 11. Making the Principle of Progressive Realization Operational: The SERF Index, an Index for Monitoring State Fulfillment of Economic and Social Rights Obligations 239
  24. Chapter 12. Deepening Our Understanding of Rights Realization through Disaggregation and Mapping Integrating Census Data and Participatory GIS 265
  25. Chapter 13. Studying Courts in Context: The Role of Nonjudicial Institutional and Socio-Political Realities 291
  26. Conclusion: Emerging Possibilities for Social Transformation 319
  27. Index 355
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