Relevance of Voluntary Guidelines
Voluntary Guidelines on Right to Food (VGRF)
GAR is a central theme in RTF discourse. Agrarian reform is
a human rights obligation of those nation states which are
party to ICESCR. Right to food includes rights of people to
access to food and food producing resources like land,
irrigation facilities, credit etc. VGRF provides practical
guidance to states in their implementation of the
progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the
context of national food security, in order to achieve the
goals of the Plan of Action of the World Food Summit. It
takes into account a wide range of important considerations
and principles, including equality and non-discrimination,
participation and inclusion, accountability and rule of law,
and the principle that all human rights are universal,
indivisible, interrelated and interdependent.
In developing these Voluntary Guidelines international
organizations, non-governmental organizations and
representatives of civil society took active part. These
Voluntary Guidelines have taken into account relevant
international instruments, particularly those enshrining the
progressive realization of the right of everyone to an
adequate standard of living, including adequate food. VGRF
provides concrete guidance to state on how to progressively
realize RTF or in other words how to promote GAR at national
level with the basic element of equitable access and control
over land, water, other natural resources etc. at the center
of the GAR policies.
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