HAKI YA KUPATA CHAKULA (the right to food)

Haki ya Msingi ya Binadamu ya kupata chakula haianzii pale mtu anaposikia njaa la hasha! Haki hii inaelezwa kikamilifu na tovuti mpya ya Haki ya Chakula (http://www.srfood.org/index.php/en/right-to-food)


The right to adequate food is realized 'when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement.' The right to adequate food shall therefore not be interpreted in a narrow or restrictive sense which equates it with a minimum package of calories, proteins and other specific nutrients. The right to adequate food will have to be realized progressively. However, States have a core obligation to take the necessary action to mitigate and alleviate hunger even in times of natural or other disasters’ (General Comment No. 12, at para. 6). For the Special Rapporteur, the right to food is the right to have regular, permanent and unrestricted access, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and sufficient food corresponding to the cultural traditions of the people to which the consumer belongs, and which ensure a physical and mental, individual and collective, fulfilling and dignified life free of fear.