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Book SynopsisFood insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. In Feeding the Hungry, Michelle Jurkovich examines the social and normative environments in which international anti-hunger organizations are working and argues that despite international law ascribing responsibility to national governments to ensure the right to food of their citizens, there is no shared social consensus on who ought to do what to solve the hunger problem. Drawing on interviews with staff at top international anti-hunger organizations as well as archival research at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the UK National Archives, and the U.S. National Archives, Jurkovich provides a new analytic model of transnational advocacy.
In investigating advocacy around a critical economic and social rightthe right to foodJurkovich challenges existing understandings of the relationships among human rights, norms, and laws. Most impo
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Who is responsible? How should it be done? In Feeding the Hungry, a concise and insightful analysis of anti-hunger advocacy, Michelle Jurkovich explores this conceptual problem.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Chronic Hunger
1. Putting Hunger on the Agenda
2. How to Think about Advocacy
3. Not All Human Rights Have Norms
4. Hunger at the Nexus of Rights and Development
5. The Limits of Law
Conclusion: Policy Implications and the Road Ahead
