A/HRC/43/44/Add.2 and sanitation, a healthy environment, access to decent work and land, as well as to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, all of which are based on the principle of nondiscrimination. 22. The right to food requires unrestricted access and opportunities to produce food for one’s own consumption, or to have a job that generates sufficient income for the purchasing of food. This right extends to everyone, including agricultural workers engaged in food production, as well as consumers (A/73/164). The right incurs an obligation for States to implement programmes aimed at ensuring freedom from hunger and malnutrition, including through the development or reform of agrarian systems. 23. In its general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights highlights the interrelatedness of the right to food with other social and economic dimensions and other human rights. The Committee affirms that the right to adequate food is indivisibly linked to the inherent dignity of the human person and is indispensable for the fulfilment of other human rights enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights. It is also inseparable from social justice, requiring the adoption of appropriate economic, environmental and social policies, at both the national and international levels, oriented to the eradication of poverty and the fulfilment of all human rights for all.5 24. In its general comment, the Committee details the normative contents of the right to food, including availability, accessibility, adequacy and sustainability, and elaborates on access to remedies in cases of violations. 6 It also states that the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. 7 25. Zimbabwe is party to other core international human rights treaties relevant to the right to food including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 26. Zimbabwe also ratified a number of regional treaties, all relevant to the right to food and to be free from hunger, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. B. National level 27. Zimbabwe must be commended for its constitutional protection of the right to food and a sophisticated set of human rights-based national laws and policies on food and nutrition. 1. Legal framework 28. In 2013, Zimbabwe adopted a new Constitution, which guarantees civil and political, economic, social and cultural rights and confirms the State’s responsibility to protect, promote and realize human rights. 29. The right to adequate food is explicitly enshrined in article 77 (b) of the 2013 Constitution of Zimbabwe, which stipulates that every person has the right to sufficient food and that the State must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within the limits of 5 6 7 6 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food, para. 4. Ibid., para. 32. Ibid., para. 6.