International Commitment to Regulating Corporate Abuse in Food Systems: A Human Rights Framework Approach
Document Type
Note
Abstract
Human access to adequate food is a pressing global challenge marked with significant disparities and systemic barriers. Despite advances in agricultural technology, production, and efforts by private organizations and governments to mitigate food access issues and recognize a legal right to food, millions worldwide continue to lack access. Poverty, political conflict, climate change, and inequitable social structures are just a few of the many complex barriers affecting food systems. However, one particular class of actors dominates the food system and exacerbates access issues: multinational and transnational corporations. By definition, corporations prioritize profit and market control. Mere recognition of the right to food in national or international agreements is insufficient without actionable steps to regulate corporate actors. This note advocates for a binding multilateral agreement with a human rights framework approach aimed at curtailing corporate capture and domination of food systems. Such an agreement would compel states to enforce regulations on corporate practices that undermine adequate food access, aiming to ensure that all people, including specially affected groups like women, children, and indigenous peoples, have the right to reliable, adequate, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food.
Recommended Citation
Isabelle Hale,
International Commitment to Regulating Corporate Abuse in Food Systems: A Human Rights Framework Approach,
52
Ga. J. Int’l & Compar. L.
493
(2024).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/gjicl/vol52/iss2/7