A/HRC/7/5 page 3 CONTENTS Chapter Paragraphs Page Introduction ................................................................................................... 1-4 5 Activities of the Special Rapporteur .............................................................. 5-9 5 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE RIGHT TO FOOD ............................................................................. 10 - 15 6 A. Positive developments ................................................................ 10 - 12 6 B. Situations of special concern ...................................................... 13 - 15 7 THE RIGHT TO FOOD IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ................... 16 - 23 8 A. Definition of the right to food ..................................................... 16 - 18 8 B. Definition of States’ correlative obligations ............................... 19 - 20 9 C. States’ extraterritorial obligations concerning the right to food .......................................................................... 21 - 23 9 WHERE THE PROBLEMS ARE ..................................................... 24 - 58 10 A. Schizophrenia in the United Nations system and in States’ policies ............................................................................ 24 - 32 10 1. Non-acceptance of the right to food ...................................... 24 - 28 10 2. The lack of coherence in States’ policies ............................... 29 - 32 12 B. Exclusion and discrimination ..................................................... 33 - 35 13 C. Refugees from hunger ................................................................. 36 - 42 15 1. Fleeing from hunger .............................................................. 37 - 39 15 2. Protecting people fleeing from hunger .................................. 40 - 42 16 D. New powerful non-State actors: transnational corporations ....... 43 - 49 17 E. Desertification ............................................................................. 50 - 52 19 F. Biofuels ....................................................................................... 53 - 58 20 I. II. III.