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• Contents: 1. Introduction
• 2. A human rights-based approach to regulating food systems for food security
• 3. Land
• 4. Soils
• 5. Water
• 6. Seeds
• 7. Pesticides
• 8. World trade
• 9. Conclusion
• Index

From soil degradation and biodiversity loss to the coexistence of malnutrition and obesity, many of the largest challenges facing humanity today are underpinned by food and agriculture systems. In order to alleviate and resolve them, global governance of food and agriculture needs to be reformed. Unravelling the array of international regulatory instruments, this timely book provides the first systematic analysis of the international law surrounding food systems. International Agricultural Law and Policy provides a systems-based analysis of the rules that intersect with the physical elements of agriculture against a framework of commonly held norms. The author conducts a comprehensive examination not only of the rules, but also the implementation and broader socioeconomic, scientific and political context. By, exploring and clarifying the relationship between food security and the right to food and sustainability, Johnson closes the gap between the disparate international rules that govern food and agriculture, while exploring the practical implications of these overlapping regimes. This unique book is an invaluable resource for lawyers and social scientists working within food and agriculture systems and their governance and lays the much-needed groundwork for future research. For policy makers in the food and agricultural space, this book provides a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the global regulatory landscape that influences law and policy processes

• Agricultural law from a global perspective : an introduction / Mariagrazia Alabrese
• Sustainable agricultural production, environmental sustainability and food security : how to frame the legal intervention / Elisa Morgera and Andrea Saba
• The ecological and perpetual dimensions of European food security : the case for sustainable agriculture / Alicia Epstein
• International law on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture : towards a new balance? / Anna G. Micara
• Results-based agri-environmental schemes for delivering ecosystem services in the EU : established issues and emerging trends / Andrea Saba
• The legal instruments for agri-environmental goals and the influence of international factors : the case of Swiss agricultural policies / Christa Preisig
• The emerging interests of consumers : answers from the agri-food regulation / Vito Rubino
• Insects in agriculture : traditional roles and beyond / Valeria Paganizza
• Animal welfare standards in agriculture : drivers, implications, interface? / Diane Ryland
• Legal pluralism and the regulation of raw milk sales in Canada : creating space for multiple normative orders at the food policy table / Sarah Berger Richardson
• Food e-commerce as a new tool for the growth of the economy : European legal framework for information of prepacked food sold online / Silvia Rolandi
• Land governance, investment law, agriculture, and the rights of local populations / Adriana Bessa and Margherita Brunori
• Access to land and security of tenure in the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly / Margherita Brunori
• Global land rush, water grabbing and the human right to water / Francesca Spagnuolo
• The regulatory vicious circle of investment operations in agriculture / Federica Violi
• Between customary and statutory tenure : understanding large-scale land acquisitions in Zambia / Margherita Baldarelli
• Agriculture land ownership as food sovereignty : the case of Slovakia / Katarína Dirgasová and Jarmila Lazíková.

This book focuses on the social and environmental issues being addressed by agricultural law within the current globalised system.What is agricultural law? Agricultural regulations concern and affect essential human needs and values that must be dealt with by pursuing a comprehensive and coordinated global approach. By tracking the developments in this context, this book explores the new challenges that agricultural law needs to address in order to frame emerging dilemmas.International governance of natural resources and their role in addressing food insecurity is the object of the first Part of the volume, which deals with sustainable agriculture and agro-ecosystem services in connection with the food security issue.The second Part focuses on the regulation of food as the main product of agricultural activity, and explores the answers that the law can provide in order to accommodate consumers' interests and concerns (inter alia, novel foods, animal welfare, direct sales and e-commerce). The third Part examines the social, environmental and legal consequences of a renewed interest in agricultural investments. Further, it analyses the evolution and the interplay between different legal systems with regard to land tenure, environmental concerns and investments in agriculture.
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