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Hunger, ethics and the right to food.
The management of hunger has to look into the issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy of food supply. From an ethical perspective, this paper argues in favour of the right to food. But, for this to become viable, the state has to come up with an appropriate and effective bill on food and nutrition security, address the issue of inadequate provisioning of storage space by state agenci...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-49.2.392