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The primary obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the right to food of their people will always rest with national governments. However, in an age of globalization and increasing interconnectedness, with the gradual emergence of a single integrated world market and the progressive globalization of most commercial, economic and social relations between peoples, it is time to challenge the traditional territorial boundaries of human rights. With the simultaneous emergence of international organizations and private transnational corporations that often have greater economic and financial power than many States, particularly in the South, it is also important to challenge the idea that human rights are only about limiting arbitrary abuses of power by Governments against their citizens
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4 The Right to Food in an Era of Globalization
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Ziegler, J., Golay, C., Mahon, C., Way, SA. (2011). The Right to Food in an Era of Globalization. In: The Fight for the Right to Food. International Relations and Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299337_4
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