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Food Diversity Between Rights, Duties and Autonomies

Legal Perspectives for a Scientific, Cultural and Social Debate on the Right to Food and Agroecology

  • first book to present food diversity as a new transdisciplinary concept
  • Discusses the challenge of feeding an ever-increasing world population while at the same time preserving the planet’s resources
  • Addresses a wide international and interdisciplinary readership and includes contributions from legal scholars, agroecologists, historians and sociologists from around the globe

Part of the book series: LITES - Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies (LITES, volume 2)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Food Diversity, Agrobiodiversity and Typicality: Territories, Tourism, Rural Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Comprehensive and Participatory Approach to the Valorisation of Biodiverse Products

      • Gianluca Brunori, Adanella Rossi, Simona D’Amico
      Pages 3-22
    3. Regional Quality Labels for Agro-Food Products

      • Clelia Losavio
      Pages 163-176
  3. Food Diversity in a Multidimensional Perspective: Food Traditions, Food Security, Right to Food, Market’s Evolutionary Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
    2. Food Security: A Challenge for a Global Governance

      • Fabio Pollice, Valentina Albanese, Giulia Urso
      Pages 217-227
    3. Considerations on the Subject of Food Security and Food Safety

      • Francesco Fabrizio Tuccari
      Pages 229-241
    4. Right to Food and “Tragedy” of the Commons

      • Antonio Gusmai
      Pages 243-263

About this book

The book reflects on the issues concerning, on the one hand, the difficulty in feeding an ever- increasing world population and, on the other hand, the need to build new productive systems able to protect the planet from overexploitation. The concept of “food diversity” is a synthesis of diversities: biodiversity of ecological sources of food supply; socio-territorial diversity; and cultural diversity of food traditions. In keeping with this transdisciplinary perspective, the book collects a large number of contributions that examine, firstly the relationships between agrobiodiversity, rural sustainable systems and food diversity; and secondly, the issues concerning typicality (food specialties/food identities), rural development and territorial communities. Lastly, it explores legal questions concerning the regulations aiming to protect both the food diversity and the right to food, in the light of the political, economic and social implications related to the problem of feeding the world population, while at the same time respecting local communities’ rights, especially in the developing countries. The book collects the works of legal scholars, agroecologists, historians and sociologists from around the globe.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Society and Human Studies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Alessandro Isoni

  • Department of Legal Studies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Michele Troisi, Maurizia Pierri

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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