Human Rights and Choice in Poverty: Food Insecurity, Dependency, and Human Rights-Based Development Aid for the Third World Rural Poor

by Alan G. Smith

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World. Considering the interdependence of minimal food and health security with minimal assurance of basic freedoms, political scientist Alan G. Smith traces the linkage to the need of the food-insecure to seek clientelistic dependencies on better-off neighbors--relationships that often operate to restrict freedom of choice. In contrast to conventional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275958264
• ISBN13: 9780275958268
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"