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Rethinking Food Systems

Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law

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Editors:
  1. Nadia C.S. Lambek

    1. Toronto, Canada

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  2. Priscilla Claeys

    1. Center for Philosophy of Law, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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  3. Adrienna Wong

    1. San Francisco, USA

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  4. Lea Brilmayer

    1. Yale Law School, New Haven, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: In Search of Better Options: Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Legal Tools for Transforming Food Systems

    • Priscilla Claeys, Nadia C. S. Lambek
    Pages 1-25

  3. Institutionalizing New Approaches to Managing Food Systems and Addressing Hunger

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Vía Campesina’s Struggle for the Right to Food Sovereignty: From Above or from Below?

      • Priscilla Claeys
      Pages 29-52

    3. Opportunities and Challenges for Food Sovereignty Policies in Latin America: The Case of Nicaragua

      • Saulo Araújo, Wendy Godek
      Pages 53-74

    4. Implementing the Right to Food in Uganda: Advances, Challenges and the Way Forward

      • Isabella Rae
      Pages 75-98

  4. Regulating for Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Respecting and Protecting the Right to Food: When States Must Get Out of the Kitchen

      • Nadia C. S. Lambek
      Pages 101-122

    3. Regulating Land Grabs: Third Party States, Social Activism and International Law

      • Lea Brilmayer, William J. Moon
      Pages 123-146

    4. From Threat to Opportunity? Problems with Codes of Conduct for Land Grabbing

      • Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco
      Pages 147-162

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 239-250
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Toronto, Canada

    Nadia C.S. Lambek

  • Center for Philosophy of Law, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Priscilla Claeys

  • San Francisco, USA

    Adrienna Wong

  • Yale Law School, New Haven, USA

    Lea Brilmayer

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