L'obligation alimentaire des pays en développement à l'égard de leurs populations: la normativité du mécanisme de développement durable

In: The Canadian yearbook of international law: Annuaire canadien de droit international, Band 40, S. 61-118

Abstract

SummaryThe traditional legal process has been inefficient in ensuring the right to receive food in developing countries, thereby preventing the estalishment of true food security in the Third World. This situation is largely due to developed countries giving priority to their own economic interests to the detriment of the hunger problem and of the already weak negotiating power of developing countries regarding any agreement reached on this issue. The mechanism for sustainable development does, however, offer new possibilities to developing countries. The cooperation and assistance duties imposed on states under international agreements on food entitlement compel developing countries to use that mechanism to promote their interests regarding the supply of food.