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Rethinking Food Systems - Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Rethinking Food Systems - Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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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. Section 1,
Institutionalizing New Approaches, explores the possibility of
institutionalizing social change through two alternative visions
for change - the right to food and food sovereignty. Individual
chapters discuss Via Campesina's struggle to implement food
sovereignty principles into international trade law, and present
case studies on adopting food sovereignty legislation in Nicaragua
and right to food legislation in Uganda. The chapters in Section 2,
Regulating for Change, explore the extent to which the regulation
of actors can or cannot change incentives and produce
transformative results in food systems. They look at the role of
the state in regulating its own actions as well as the actions of
third parties and analyze various means of regulating land grabs.
The final section, Governing for Better Food Systems, discusses the
fragmentation of international law and the impacts of this
fragmentation on the realization of human rights. These chapters
trace the underpinnings of the current global food system, explore
the challenges of competing regimes of intellectual property,
farmers rights and human rights, and suggest new modes of
governance for global and local food systems. The stakes for
building better food systems are high. Our current path leaves many
behind, destroying the environment and entrenching inequality and
systemic poverty. While it is commonly understood that legal
structures are at the heart of food systems, the legal academy has
yet to make a significant contribution to recent discussions on
improving food systems - this book aims to fill that gap.
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