Food Diversity Between Rights, Duties and Autonomies
Legal Perspectives for a Scientific, Cultural and Social Debate on the Right to Food and Agroecology
Editors: Isoni, Alessandro, Troisi, Michele, Pierri, Maurizia (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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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.
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A Comprehensive and Participatory Approach to the Valorisation of Biodiverse Products
Pages 3-22
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Remarks on Integrated Production (IP), Different Agricultural Systems and Coordinating Groups
Pages 23-35
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Genetically Modified Organisms as Politicizing Products?
Pages 37-55
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Agroecology and Geographical Indications at the WTO and in the EU Between Magic and Rationality: ‘Reinventing’ Marketing Designations to Preserve Rural Economy, Cultural Heritage and the Environment
Pages 57-89
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Food Diversity and Typicality in EU and in Italian Law: Protected Designations of Origin (PDOs); Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs); Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSGs)
Pages 91-109
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Food Diversity Between Rights, Duties and Autonomies
- Book Subtitle
- Legal Perspectives for a Scientific, Cultural and Social Debate on the Right to Food and Agroecology
- Editors
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- Alessandro Isoni
- Michele Troisi
- Maurizia Pierri
- Series Title
- LITES - Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies
- Series Volume
- 2
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-75196-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-75196-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-75195-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09167-5
- Series ISSN
- 2522-5049
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 503
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics