The right to individual food security in public international law

Abstract

The publication deals with the study of the protection of human right to food in public international law. The author tried to identify the main sources of public international law in the field of right to food protection, analyze their content, formulate problems in the field of protection of human rights to food at the present stage of public international law development. Today, the problem of compliance with this right to food lies mainly in the specifics of the target persons’ category (the poor, people with disabilities, incapacitated persons, etc.), we can identify a range of sources of international law that establish rules on the right to food for these categories. In our opinion, it is appropriate to formulate the provision “the right to an adequate level of individual food security”. Individual food security is much broader than the concept of “access to food”, which is most common in international law. It is also necessary to formulate clear criteria for the violation of this right, which can undoubtedly claim further elaboration in research in this area.