The right to food: from law to practice Lessons from the nepalese experience 2007-2016.

This dissertation focuses on the situation of the right to adequate food in Nepal. The starting point are the constitutional recognition of the right to food sovereignty in this country’s Interim Constitution of 2007, and the inclusion of the rights to food, food security and food sovereignty in the 2015 Constitution of the Republic of Nepal. The general objective is to describe and assess the relevance and limits of the legal recognition of this right. In order to do so the dissertation is structured around the identification of structural, process, and outcome indicators that allow for the description of the legal and institutional framework for the right to food in this country; for the identification of steps taken towards the realization of this right; and finally for the analysis of changes in the right to food situation during the analyzed time period.