ولدى تحديد أي فعل أو إغفال لفعل يعدّ انتهاكا للحق في الغذاء، من الأهمية بمكان التمييز بين عجز الدولة الطرف عن الوفاء بالتزاماتها وعدم استعدادها لذلك.
Should a State party argue that resource constraints make it impossible to provide access to food for those who are unable by themselves to secure such access, the State has to demonstrate that every effort has been made to use all the resources at its disposal in an effort to satisfy, as a matter of priority, those minimum obligations.