Right to Food Campaign, India

The Right To Food Campaign is an informal network of individuals and organisations committed to the realisation of the right to food in India. The campaign began in 2001 as an offshoot of public interest litigation in the Supreme Court, and quickly grew into a country-wide movement.

The campaign, which has taken up a wide range of aspects of the right to food, has several demands and some of these have already been met to some extent. Among these are the passage of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005 and National Food Security Act of 2013, and the introduction of cooked mid-day meals in all primary schools following a Supreme Court order in April 2004.