The human right to food in Bolivia : Droit à l'alimentation en bolivie : rapport d'une mission internationale d'observation

Almost a billion people around the world experience hunger every day. This is more than before the food price crisis of 2008 and significantly higher than when hunger-reduction targets were set during the World Food Summit in 1996. Those targets envisioned a reduction, by half, in the number of hungry people by 2015. Not only is the international community failing to achieve its modest goal, it is now confronting a setback that compels us to ask where we have gone wrong. Bolivia is a country that boasts a government dedicated to social advancement. It also enjoys increasing state revenues from oil and gas and enough productive land to feed its population. And yet, the United Nations reports that Bolivia still records the highest level of hunger in South America. Rights & Democracy hopes that this report will offer some useful reflections on the causes of hunger in Bolivia and about how a human rights perspective might offer some solutions.