Overview
- Presents a collection of pieces that analyze how law shapes the structural underpinnings of the global food system and its ongoing transformation
- Provides unique perspectives: contributors include food and food sovereignty activists, legal academics and practitioners, students of sociology, development studies and global affairs, NGO and CSO members and individuals who have worked with various arms of the United Nations
- Numerous case studies document the successes and challenges in using legal tools to improve food systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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 Vía 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, destroyingthe 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Institutionalizing New Approaches to Managing Food Systems and Addressing Hunger
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Food Systems
Book Subtitle: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law
Editors: Nadia C.S. Lambek, Priscilla Claeys, Adrienna Wong, Lea Brilmayer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7778-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7777-4Published: 22 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0771-6Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7778-1Published: 10 January 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 250
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Public International Law , Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, International Political Economy