Hilal Elver is currently a Global Distinguished Fellow at the UCLA Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy and was appointed in 2014 as the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. She also was a visiting professor at Rutgers Law School in Newark. In this article published in  the University of California FoodObserver, Dr. Elver talks about the global right to food and her efforts on helping people in developing countries have access to food.