Professor Hilal Elver, the UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food, evaluates the human rights based approach in relation to the right to adequate and healthy food given the reality and impact of the political, environmental and economic challenges of the 21st century. Professor Elver discusses the strong resistance by global market forces to rights based approach to food security as it supposedly interferes with free market principles; and moreover, the right to food as embedded in the Covenant of the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights is not taken nearly as seriously by many developed countries as is the companion treaty, Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 10 November 2014