When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security not improving, and to what extent is this failure contributing to overall hunger and malnutrition?

Anne C. Bellows is professor and graduate program director of the Food Studies Program in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition at Syracuse University.

Flavio L.S. Valente is the secretary general of FIAN International, based in Heidelberg.

Stefanie Lemke joined the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK in 2015. From 2013 to 2015, she was acting chair, Department of Gender and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim.

María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara is a research associate at the Department of Gender and Nutrition at the University of Hohenheim.

1. The Evolving Nature of the Human Rights System and the Development of the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Concept Anne C. Bellows, María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara and Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana 2. Gender, Nutrition, and the Right to Adequate Food: Introducing Two Structural Disconnects and the Human Rights Processes Necessary to Address Them Anne C. Bellows and María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara 3. Violence and Women's Participation in the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Anne C. Bellows and Anna Jenderedjian 4. Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding: Intertwined Subjectivities and Corporate Accountability Lida Lhotska, Veronika Scherbaum and Anne C. Bellows 5. Sustainable Food Systems, Gender, and Participation: Foregrounding Women in the Context of the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Stefanie Lemke and Anne C. Bellows 6. Closing Protection Gaps Through a More Comprehensive Conceptual Framework for the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition Flavio L.S. Valente, Ana María Suárez Franco and R. Denisse Córdova Montes Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Chronological Glossary of Human Rights Instruments and Other International Frameworks and Documents Mentioned in This Volume.