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Harvesting Rice in Liberia in 1965. Alongside cassava, rice is the staple food of the republic, with 238,000 tonnes produced in 2013. The foodstuff accounts for 22% of agricultural GDP, far higher than all livestock. [8] However, the harvest still falls short of 1988 levels which were 299,000 tonnes even though the population has doubled.
Often they are known as food security laws instead of right to food laws, but their effect is usually similar. [ 35 ] Advantages of framework law includes that the content and scope of the right can be further specified, state and private actor obligations can be spelled out in detail, appropriate institutional mechanisms can be established ...
The primary means of obtaining nationality in Liberia is birth on Liberian soil (jus soli), or by descent from a Liberian national (jus sanguinis). [7] Nationality is restricted to those who are Negroes and no provision is made for foundlings or orphans discovered in the territory with unknown parentage. [10]
The economy of Liberia is extremely underdeveloped, with only $3.222 billion by gross domestic product as of 2019, largely due to the First (1989–1996) and Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003). Liberia itself is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world, according to the United Nations .
According to Feed the Future, it is "the U.S. government's global hunger and food security initiative." [ 1 ] The Feed the Future Initiative began as an effort "to combat the global food price spikes of 2007 and 2008."
The term food security was first used in the 1960-1970s to refer to food supply and consistent access to food in international development work. [13] In 1966 the treaty titled the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was created to ensure economic, social and cultural rights including the “inalienable right to adequate nutritious food”. [14]
[1] [2] SDG 2 highlights the "complex inter-linkages between food security, nutrition, rural transformation and sustainable agriculture". [3] According to the United Nations , there were up to 757 million people facing hunger in 2023 – one out of 11 people in the world, [ 4 ] which accounts for slightly less than 10 percent of the world ...
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was established in 1974 as an intergovernmental body to serve as a forum in the United Nations System for review and follow-up of policies concerning world food security, including any and all production, physical, and economic access to food.