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The importance of food security and nutrition security will continue to grow in the future. These issues, which are a potential source of conflict, will constitute an essential parameter of security itself, whether it is within a country or on a planetary scale. On a more fundamental level, the tragedy of hunger, which affects a large portion of humanity, and the injustice of their inability to access healthy, varied and balanced food, are both tied to fundamental human rights. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and all the international legal instruments that have come after it over the decades, remind us that the rights linked to human dignity are fundamental values, including the right to feed oneself.
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Guillou, M., Matheron, G. (2014). Towards a Global Governance of Food. In: The World’s Challenge. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8569-3_10
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