Critical discussions of human rights have featured prominently in the development studies literature. While many social actors have utilized human rights to advance their goals, the framework has also been criticized for its tendency to individualize struggles and emphasize legal dimensions of justice, while ignoring issues of power. Despite these critiques, rights discourse continues to resonate within the food sovereignty movement—“a transnational movement of rural social organizations that work towards achieving structural changes in the global food system” (Claeys, 2015, p. 1).

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• Duthie-Kannikkatt, K., (2025), "Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control by Priscilla Claeys", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.181)

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Original publication: Duthie-Kannikkatt, Kaitlyn. "Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control by Priscilla Claeys." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 3, no. 2, 2016, pp. 242-244. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.181. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.