The idea of the human right to food as a legal framework to address inequalities in the global food system has become increasingly mainstreamed at the level of political discourse and public policy. Indeed, claiming the right to food on the part of individuals and collectives is now firmly entrenched in struggles for food security and food justice around the globe. The articles in this section provide a sober assessment on the successes and failures of the right to food approach. This includes a careful consideration of the various purposes and uses of the right to food, ranging from a legal doctrine to normative framework for political action to an institutional resource that enables the elaboration of new human rights.

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• Clapp, J., Desmarais, A., Margulis, M., (2025), "PRF - Progress on the right to food", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.79)

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1. food security
2. human rights
3. right to food

Original publication: Clapp, Jennifer; Desmarais, Annette; Margulis, Matias. "PRF - Progress on the right to food." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 39-40. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.79. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.