9 require informed legislation, political will, and coordinated action. But a rights-based approach creates enabling environments that support people in nourishing themselves while providing a structure for legal recourse.16 6. Rights - based Approach to Food In recent years, there has been an important shift from basic need approach to right based approach in relation to right to food. The right-based approach to food is adopted mainly due to inherent inadequacy in basic need approach, which does not create legal obligation on the states to ensure right to food. In particular, the right-based approach has become popular in view of the global food crisis and increasing number of undernourished people increased around the world. The right-based approach to food represents a paradigm shift from an anti-hunger approach which is centered on food security. A human rights-based approach to food security emphasizes universal, interdependent, indivisible and interrelated human rights, the obligations of States and the roles of relevant stakeholders.17 The right-based approach puts emphasis on poor and vulnerable people who are often excluded from the processes that determine policies to promote food security.18 A human rights-based approach requires not only addressing the final outcome of abolishing hunger, but also proposing ways and tools by which that goal is achieved.19 The right-based approach to food can help the government to reach the poorest and can hold governments accountable. The rights-based approach seeks to create enabling environments and conditions for people to feed themselves by insisting that nutritious food is not simply a basic need, but a fundamental human right. The right-based approach provides a venue for public participation in the food and nutrition discourse from people most affected by food insecurity.20 It provides a mechanism 16 Ibid Para 19 of the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, FAO, Rome, 2005, adopted by the 127th Session of the FAO Council November 2004ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/y7937e/y7937e00.pdf 18 Ibid 19 Para 19 of the Voluntary Guidelines 20 Marian Chilton, ‘A Rights-Based Approach to Food Insecurity in the United States, ‘ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696644/ 17