2023 Harvard School of Public Health
https://youtu.be/eSR5sGEP0nM On World Food Day (Oct. 16) in 2023, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic co-sponsored an event centering on the International Food Security Treaty. Among the panelists were host Walter Willett (Professor, HSPH Dept. of Epidemiology and Nutrition), Robert S. Lawrence (Co-Founder, Physicians for […]
Research
Status Reports on Hunger and International Agreements The following reports have been prepared by IFST participants, available in PDF format. (Click to download the required free Adobe Reader software.) The Extent and Causes of Global Hunger, 2010 (D. Pratt, 2010) International and National Law and the Right to Adequate Food (A. Flukinger, 2010) Realization of the Right to Food in […]
Law as a Catalyst
Bread for the World Institute, an affiliate of the Bread for the World anti-hunger lobbying organization in the USA, published “Law as Catalyst in the Eradication of Hunger,” in its publication Hunger 2000 – The Tenth Annual Report on the State of World Hunger: A Program to End Hunger. The article, by IFST Association Director John […]
The Armless Hand
By John Teton Original Article on yalejournal.org Abstract The long-recognized human right of freedom from hunger remains unrealized because traditional remedies for addressing it continue to prove inadequate. Nonetheless, the goals of ending starvation and malnutrition worldwide can be achieved through a global commitment to the International Food Security Treaty, which will place that right […]
On the Origin of a Hunger Free Species
Original Article | PDF Download Had Charles Darwin been blessed with precognition while conjecturing about finch beak differentiation over millions of years, he would have envied us. We in the early twenty-first century–within a single lifetime–can observe homo sapiens evolving a transformative new trait with unprecedented strength through the international justice system. Contrary to common perceptions of […]