Addressing food and nutrition security from a human rights-based perspective: A mixed-methods study of NGOs in post-Soviet Armenia and Georgia

Anna Jenderedjian and Anne C. Bellows

Food Policy, 2019, vol. 84, issue C, 46-56

Abstract: Increasing numbers of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) declare a move from a needs- to a human rights-based approach (HRBA) in addressing food and nutrition security. Little work, however, has been done to reveal how HRBA to food is realized at a country level. Using a mixed methods approach, we demonstrate main challenges for NGOs’ adoption of HRBA in Armenia and Georgia. A combination of NGO operational and state level factors hamper rights-based food and nutrition work of NGOs. NGOs’ willingness and capacity to engage with HRBA to food and confront the state is influenced by the history of post-Soviet transition, views on the state versus market, and isolation from transnational actors propagating the right to adequate food.

Keywords: Developing countries; Right to food; Human rights; Food safety; Food aid; Civil society organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.02.002

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