Prioritizing Needs: Food Security and Conservation in the context of Food Insecurity
(2025) JAMM07 20251Faculty of Law
Department of Law
- Abstract
- In 2024, the Namibian government announced the culling of wildlife as a drought intervention measure. The consideration of food security in conservation decision-making manifests the tension in international law between a state’s conservation imperatives and human rights law obligations. Consequently, the thesis explores: What can the law do to balance food security imperatives against conservation imperatives?
The significance of this research lies in addressing growing humanitarian demands within biodiversity-rich developing countries. In its analysis, the thesis adopts the doctrinal legal research methodology and the human rights-based approach.
The subsequent discussion focuses on two arguments. Firstly, in non-humanitarian... (More) - In 2024, the Namibian government announced the culling of wildlife as a drought intervention measure. The consideration of food security in conservation decision-making manifests the tension in international law between a state’s conservation imperatives and human rights law obligations. Consequently, the thesis explores: What can the law do to balance food security imperatives against conservation imperatives?
The significance of this research lies in addressing growing humanitarian demands within biodiversity-rich developing countries. In its analysis, the thesis adopts the doctrinal legal research methodology and the human rights-based approach.
The subsequent discussion focuses on two arguments. Firstly, in non-humanitarian contexts, states compliant with their conservation imperatives can operationalise subsistence use to advance food security. Secondly, in humanitarian emergencies, states are obligated to cull wildlife regardless of compliance with conservation imperatives, provided certain standards are satisfied. The thesis suggests a framework for the second argument entailing five interconnected factors: performance of a humanitarian assessment, classification of food insecurity using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, international cooperation to alleviate food insecurity, frequency of disaster and availability of adequate humanitarian aid. In its conclusion, the thesis justifies its primary arguments. (Less)
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- Lagat, Franklin Kiplimo LU
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- JAMM07 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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- English
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- 9192316
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abstract = {{In 2024, the Namibian government announced the culling of wildlife as a drought intervention measure. The consideration of food security in conservation decision-making manifests the tension in international law between a state’s conservation imperatives and human rights law obligations. Consequently, the thesis explores: What can the law do to balance food security imperatives against conservation imperatives?
The significance of this research lies in addressing growing humanitarian demands within biodiversity-rich developing countries. In its analysis, the thesis adopts the doctrinal legal research methodology and the human rights-based approach.
The subsequent discussion focuses on two arguments. Firstly, in non-humanitarian contexts, states compliant with their conservation imperatives can operationalise subsistence use to advance food security. Secondly, in humanitarian emergencies, states are obligated to cull wildlife regardless of compliance with conservation imperatives, provided certain standards are satisfied. The thesis suggests a framework for the second argument entailing five interconnected factors: performance of a humanitarian assessment, classification of food insecurity using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, international cooperation to alleviate food insecurity, frequency of disaster and availability of adequate humanitarian aid. In its conclusion, the thesis justifies its primary arguments.}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Prioritizing Needs: Food Security and Conservation in the context of Food Insecurity}},
year = {{2025}},
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