What is it about?

Using the human rights framework and the right to health/right to food to examine U.S. agricultural policies.

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Why is it important?

The U.S. has treaty obligations through international human rights law to respect, protect, and fulfill the right to food and the right to health (among other human rights). Advocates for improving our food system and our health system can use the human rights framework as an additional imperative for change.

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This page is a summary of: Food System Policy, Public Health, and Human Rights in the United States, Annual Review of Public Health, March 2015, Annual Reviews,
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122621.
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