Food Security in South Africa: Human rights and entitlement perspectives

The right to food is guaranteed in South Africa s Constitution as it is in international law. Yet food insecurity remains widespread and persistent, at levels much higher than in countries with similar levels of per capita GDP and development, such as Brazil. In this book, leading local and international researchers on food security and related policy work have come together to create the first systematic and trans-disciplinary analysis of food security and its multiple dimensions in South Africa and the southern African region."

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at the New School, and in 2012 was Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town. She is a development economist who has published widely on a broad range of development policy-related issues.Viviene Taylor teaches social policy, development planning and social and economic development in the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town.＂