services, access to social protection and poverty reduction programs especially for women and girls with disabilities, financial assistance, and retirement benefits. Other international conventions that implicitly recognize the right to adequate food of women with disabilities are Article 12 of CEDAW which recognizes lactating and pregnant women’s right to adequate nutrition; and Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child which provides for adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking-water to combat disease and malnutrition among children. The right to adequate food of women with disabilities is also recognized in the food security guidelines of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The World Food Summit Declaration reaffirms “the right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger.” National policies, programs and services The Philippine legal framework does not sufficiently incorporate human rights obligations arising from the right to food. The explicit protection of the right to adequate food in the 1987 Philippine Constitution can be found in Article XV, Section 3 in relation to children’s right to assistance including nutrition. The Constitution mentions the word “food”, not as a human right per se, but as an obligation of government to “establish and maintain an effective food and drug regulatory system.” The guarantee of the right to adequate food is explicitly cited in the Section 20 of the Magna Carta of Women, in which it highlights quality and quantity of food to meet dietary needs of individuals, the physical and economic accessibility to adequate food, food safety, cultural appropriateness, and access to accurate information to the availability of food including how to produce and access them. Different aspects of the right to adequate food and nutrition are scattered in various existing laws such as RA 6657 or Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, RA 8435 or Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act, RA 8550 or Philippine Fisheries Code, RA 7607 or Magna Carta of Small Farmers, RA 7884 or National Dairy Act, RA 7900 or High Value Crops Act, RA 8178 or Agricultural Tariffication Act, RA 7308 Seed Industry Development Act, RA 9168 or Plant Variety Protection Act, RA 7581 or Price Act, RA 71 or Price Tag Law, EO 51 or Milk Code and RA 8976 or Philippine Food Fortification Act of 2000, and RA 1061 or Food Safety Act. The Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (Conditional Cash Transfer Program )which aims to break the cycle of poverty by keeping children aged 0-18 healthy and in school, had identified 22