On the eve of the commemoration of 60 years since the United
Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
some rights, like the Right to Food, are overshadowed by those
that have received more political and public support, yet severe
food insecurity affects at least one-seventh of the world’s
human population. On 16 October 2007, the Food & Agriculture
Organization (FAO) will celebrate World Food Day with the theme
The Right to Food. The Right to Food is the right of every
person to have regular access to sufficient, nutritionally
adequate and culturally acceptable food for an active, healthy
life. It is the right to feed oneself in dignity, rather than
the right to be fed. With more than 850 million people still
deprived of enough food, the Right to Food is not just
economically, morally and politically imperative – it is also a
legal obligation. Since 1996, following the World Food Summit,
FAO has been working with governments and communities worldwide
to gain recognition for this basic hum