When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security not improving, and to what extent is this failure contributing to overall hunger and malnutrition?

1. The Evolving Nature of the Human Rights System and the Development of the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Concept Anne C. Bellows, María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara and Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana 2. Gender, Nutrition, and the Right to Adequate Food: Introducing Two Structural Disconnects and the Human Rights Processes Necessary to Address Them Anne C. Bellows and María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara 3. Violence and Women’s Participation in the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Anne C. Bellows and Anna Jenderedjian 4. Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding: Intertwined Subjectivities and Corporate Accountability Lida Lhotska, Veronika Scherbaum and Anne C. Bellows 5. Sustainable Food Systems, Gender, and Participation: Foregrounding Women in the Context of the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Stefanie Lemke and Anne C. Bellows 6. Closing Protection Gaps Through a More Comprehensive Conceptual Framework for the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Flavio L.S. Valente, Ana María Suárez Franco and R. Denisse Córdova Montes Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Chronological Glossary of Human Rights Instruments and Other International Frameworks and Documents Mentioned in This Volume.

"This multi-authored volume, the product of a continuing seminar by the editors and additional authors, exhaustively spans and connects the latest legal, political, economic and sociocultural thinking connecting gender, nutrition and human rights…As in usual in writings building legal background and arguments, there are many redundancies as the authors trace the institutional and documentary background to each topic. This is an advantage, in that individual chapters contain fully developed backgrounds, and individual chapters refer to the others."Ellen Messer, Cambridge University Press"The volume of essays introduces several critical feminist perspectives to the debates around food and nutrition security, employing a lens of social justice, and a feminist critique of the structural causes of global food insecurity, which is often treated as a technical problem" Emily Hillenbrand, Senior Technical Advisor for Gender and Livelihoods, CARE USA Food Nutrition Security Unit, Atlanta, USA"This book addresses important issues for attaining human wellbeing worldwide. It presents a thorough review of literature and of international declarations related to food and nutrition. Each chapter presses for change in inter-national frameworks, instruments and policies related to human rights."Ann Waters-Bayer,Royal Tropical Institute, Agriculture and Human Values Journal of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society