TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing food and nutrition security from a human rights-based perspective
T2 - A mixed-methods study of NGOs in post-Soviet Armenia and Georgia
AU - Jenderedjian, Anna
AU - Bellows, Anne C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Anna Jenderedjian's research was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development within the frames of “Agricultural Economics and Related Sciences” Programme at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. The fieldwork to Georgia was partially funded by the foundation fiat panis.
Funding Information:
Anna Jenderedjian’s research was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development within the frames of “Agricultural Economics and Related Sciences” Programme at the University of Hohenheim , Stuttgart, Germany. The fieldwork to Georgia was partially funded by the foundation fiat panis .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - Increasing numbers of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) declare a move from a needs- to a human rights-based approach (HRBA) in addressing food and nutrition security. Little work, however, has been done to reveal how HRBA to food is realized at a country level. Using a mixed methods approach, we demonstrate main challenges for NGOs’ adoption of HRBA in Armenia and Georgia. A combination of NGO operational and state level factors hamper rights-based food and nutrition work of NGOs. NGOs’ willingness and capacity to engage with HRBA to food and confront the state is influenced by the history of post-Soviet transition, views on the state versus market, and isolation from transnational actors propagating the right to adequate food.
AB - Increasing numbers of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) declare a move from a needs- to a human rights-based approach (HRBA) in addressing food and nutrition security. Little work, however, has been done to reveal how HRBA to food is realized at a country level. Using a mixed methods approach, we demonstrate main challenges for NGOs’ adoption of HRBA in Armenia and Georgia. A combination of NGO operational and state level factors hamper rights-based food and nutrition work of NGOs. NGOs’ willingness and capacity to engage with HRBA to food and confront the state is influenced by the history of post-Soviet transition, views on the state versus market, and isolation from transnational actors propagating the right to adequate food.
KW - Civil society organizations
KW - Developing countries
KW - Food aid
KW - Food safety
KW - Human rights
KW - Right to food
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U2 - 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.02.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062070824
SN - 0306-9192
VL - 84
SP - 46
EP - 56
JO - Food Policy
JF - Food Policy
ER -