South Africa leads the world in the development of legal provisions for economic and social rights yet SERF scores show mediocre performance in fulfilling the right to food. To examine this paradox, a seminar on the Right to Food and the role of economic and social policy was held at the University of Cape Town on May 30-31, 2012. Speakers and participants included leading researchers, jurists, parliamentarians and members of the National Human Rights Commission and the National Development Commission. Select documents are available here:

• Battersby, Jane. “Urban Food Security”
• Cousins, Ben. “Agricultural Policy and the Right to Food in South Africa”
• Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko. “The Right to Food in South Africa”
• Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko. “The Right to Food: The Role of Economic and Social Policy”
• Hertel, Shareen. “Social Movements and the Politics of Right to Food Campaigns”
• Jacobs, Peter. “Who and Where are the Food Insecure Rural Households?”
• Langba, John. “Food Security in South Africa”
• May, Julia. “Inequities in Under-Five Child Nutritional Status in South Africa”
• Nyembezi, Nkosikhulule. “The Politics of the Right to Food”
• Randolph, Susan. “The Right to Food”
• Taylor,Viviene. “Social Policies and Food Security in South Africa”