Disability, access to food, and the UN CRPD:Navigating a rights-based equality discourse in the Netherlands

Aims In 2016, the Netherlands ratified the UN CRPD, becoming one of the last developed nations to sign on. In this presentation, we will explore how equal access to food provides a lens through which barriers to implementing a rights-based approach to disability equality can be examined in countries that are historically resistant to rights-based equality discourses. Methods Through a literature review, policy research, and interviews with disabled people, representatives of disabled people’s organisations, Dutch legal scholars and government representatives, food system researchers and food b... Mehr ...