Screen LibraryRethinking food systems : structural challenges, new strategies and the law /
Taking as a starting point that hunger results from social exclusion and distributional inequities and that lasting, sustainable and just solutions are to be found in changing the structures that underlie our food systems, this book examines how law shapes global food systems and their ongoing trans...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Taking as a starting point that hunger results from social exclusion and distributional inequities and that lasting, sustainable and just solutions are to be found in changing the structures that underlie our food systems, this book examines how law shapes global food systems and their ongoing transformations. Using detailed case studies, historical mapping and legal analysis, the contributors show how various actors (farmers, civil society groups, government officials, international bodies) use or could use different legal tools (legislative, jurisprudential, norm-setting) on various scales (local, national, regional, global) to achieve structural changes in food systems. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789400777774 : 9400777779 9789400777781 9400777787 |
| Index Number: | HD9000 |
| CLC: |
TS201.6 F316.1 |
| Call Number: | F316.1/R438 |
| Contents: |
In search of better options : food sovereignty, the right to food and legal tools for transforming food systems / Institutionalizing new approaches to managing food systems and addressing hunger. Vía Campesina's struggle for the right to food sovereignty : from above or from below? / Opportunities and challenges for food sovereignty policies in Latin America : the case of Nicaragua / Implementing the right to food in Uganda : advances, challenges and the way forward / Regulating for change. Respecting and protecting the right to food : when states must get out of the kitchen / Regulating land grabs : third party states, social activism and international law / From threat to opportunity? : Problems with codes of conduct for land grabbing / Governing for better food systems. International economic law and the right to food / The right to food, farmers' rights and intellectual property rights : can competing law be reconciled? / The reform of the Committee on World Food Security : the quest for coherence in global governance / |