ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the development of guaranteed nutritional safety nets with enforceable legal entitlements. In The National Nutrition Safety Net: Tools for Community Food Security, the US government's perspective is that community food security "includes both a Federal nutrition assistance safety net and local organizational and policy structures that ensure that all community members have access to a safe, nutritious, and affordable food supply". The safety net approach takes the idea of a defined minimum very seriously. Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security shows different ways in which the obligations relating to the human right to adequate food might be fulfilled. The criteria for eligibility for a nutritional safety net could be specified in many different ways. For example, in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme in India, every child up to six years of age is eligible for ICDS.
