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1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
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1st ed
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9789086867134
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European Institute for Food Law series v.5
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With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, food security still is a dream rather than reality: 'a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life'. Political commitments at world summits on food security, market-based agricultural policies, science-based food safety regulation and voluntary guidelines on the right to food have not ended hunger, malnourishment or food safety crises in our world. The question arises whether food insecurity is a situation that exists in spite of these commitments and legal measures, or rather due to them?This book has three purposes. Firstly, it offers insights in how law, politics and the right to food contribute to food security in both positive and negative ways. For this purpose, different theories, concepts and methodologies from legal, political, anthropological and sociological sciences are used and developed. Secondly, the book explains that food security and food policies cannot be treated as given, at one level or in one domain only. This is done in different ways: by pointing out the emergence of new paradigms on food security, human rights and science that shape food policies; by showing how law and policies at one level affect food security at another level; and by treating food security and food policies as linked to governance regimes of agriculture, food, feed, water or property. Finally, the book offers scholarly analysis of paradigms and practices but also presents social science-based ways to indirectly contribute to food security, varying from improving justiciability to building trust, from seeking ways to address non-scientific concerns to creating room for plurality of lifestyles and
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norms, from unmasking dominant discourse to understanding or strengthening abilities or arrangements to cope with vulnerability
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Intro -- Table of contents -- About the authors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Otto Hospes, Han van Dijk and Bernd van der Meulen -- 1. Food security -- 2. Adequate food -- 3. Food policy -- 4. Law and governance approaches to food security and food policy -- 4.1 Law-in-motion approaches -- 4.2 Governance approaches -- 5. This book -- 5.1 Developing human rights law for food security -- 5.2 Law, science and politics in securing food safety -- 5.3 Transnational law, resource complexes and food security -- References -- Part 1 Developing human rights law for food security -- Chapter 2 The plural wells of the right to food -- Bart Wernaart -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development of the concept of 'right to food' over time -- 3. The right to food in a broader perspective -- 3.1 The right to food mentioned as an independent right -- 3.2 The right to food implicitly or explicitly mentioned in a context -- 4. Documents and institutions -- 4.1 International documents addressing the right to food -- 4.2 International documents addressing the right to food for specific groups -- 4.3 Regional human rights documents -- 5. International institutions related to the human right to adequate food -- 5.1 The General Assembly -- 5.2 The Security Council -- 5.3 The Economic and Social Council -- 5.4 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- 5.5 The Human Rights Council -- 5.6 The Advisory Council -- 5.7 The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Food -- 5.8 The High Commissioner for Human Rights -- 5.9 The Food and Agricultural Organization -- 5.10 The World Health Organization -- 5.11 The United Nations Children's Fund -- 5.12 The International Fund for Agricultural Development -- 5.13 The World Food Programme -- 5.14 The United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition -- 6. Afterword -- References
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Chapter 3 The freedom to feed oneself: food in the struggle for paradigms in human rights law -- Bernd van der Meulen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Human rights -- 2.1 What are human rights? -- 2.2 Inalienable rights -- 2.3 Human rights in the concept of law -- 2.4 Treaties and legislation -- 3. Dawn of modern human rights -- 3.1 Four freedoms -- 3.2 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 4. Human rights in Europe -- 4.1 Council of Europe -- 4.2 The European Court of Human Rights -- 4.3 Progressive realisation -- 4.4 The European Social Charter -- 5. The UN Bill of Rights and the right to adequate food -- 5.1 Two covenants -- 5.2 The right to adequate food -- 5.3 The concept of adequate food -- 5.4 The right to water -- 5.5 Access to land -- 6. The paradigm of generations -- 6.1 Social and economic rights -- 6.2 Limits to the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights -- 6.3 Generations -- 7. The holistic paradigm -- 7.1 The Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Food -- 7.2 General Comment no. 12 -- 7.3 Justiciability -- 8. The human right to feed oneself -- 9. Catching up on doctrine -- 10. Towards a paradigm of 'real' human rights? -- 11. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 4 State obligations for human rights: the case of the right to food -- Asbjørn Eide -- 1. The right to adequate food is a human right -- 2. On the right to food in human rights law, and on human rights as 'law' -- 2.1 Human rights as such are not initially subjective rights under positive law -- 2.2 When and how do human rights become 'law' and subjective rights? -- 2.3 The scope of state obligations -- 3. The tripartite typology of state obligations: origin and purpose -- 3.1 Overcoming the ideological schism -- 3.2 Foundation of the typology in the texts of international instruments -- 3.3 Categories of state obligations
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3.4 The category of respect for economic, social and cultural rights: its wide significance -- 3.5 The category of 'protection': its wide range -- 3.6 The division of 'fulfil' into 'facilitate' and 'provide' -- 4. Benefits, criticisms and responses -- 5. A note on the main users of the tripartite typology -- 5.1 Its usefulness for the monitoring bodies -- 5.2 Its use by NGOS and civil society: the case of FIAN -- 5.3 The usefulness for governments: the typology in the new guidelines on the implementation of the right to food -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 The Netherlands and the right to food: a short history of poor legal cuisine -- Frank Vlemminx -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dutch legal system -- 3. The nature of economic, social and cultural rights in the eyes of the government -- 4. The rights contained in the constitution and in the covenant in legal practice -- 5. Direct applicability of the covenant -- 6. The case law in broad outline -- 7. The attitude of the Dutch government -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Declared, not acquired: claiming hunger as a violation of the right to food, with a case -- Irene Hadiprayitno -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The right to food and its contents as part of international human rights law -- 3. The right to food in Indonesia -- 3.1 The right to food as a human right -- 3.2 The right to food and food security -- 3.3 The right to food in food emergency situations -- 3.4 A cornucopia of law -- 4. Hunger in Papua: a violation of the right to food? -- 4.1 The case of Yahukimo -- 4.2 Concluding observations from the case study -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part 2 Law, science and politics in securing food safety -- Chapter 7 Food politics: science and democracy in the Dutch and EU food polity -- Henri Goverde -- 1. Introduction
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2. Hegemony, power and institution building in the food system -- 3. Phases and features of the Dutch food polity: modernity, consensus, fragmentation -- 3.1 Dutch food politics: towards scientific food management -- 3.2 Organising availability of food: state action in a neo-corporatist polity -- 3.3 Dutch food institutions in the 20th century: modernism and consensus: an interpretation -- 3.4 Autonomy agro-food polity contested -- 3.5 Organic farming: example of counter-hegemony and power dynamics -- 4. Formal institutions in the General Food Law: scientific 'truth' in multi-level governance -- 4.1 Formal institutions in the General Food Law -- 4.2 Role of science in the General Food Law -- 5. Food polity and science: negotiated 'truth' in multi-level governance game -- 5.1 Negotiated 'truth' -- 5.2 Food safety and multi-level governance -- 5.3 Rheinland model in trans-national context -- 6. Government and food: enhancing democratic food politics -- 6.1 Three political philosophical perspectives and governance -- 6.2 Guidelines for democratic institution-building in the food system -- 7. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 8 From food security to food quality: spreading standards, eroding trust? -- Gerard Breeman and Catrien Termeer -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 From food security to food quality -- 1.2 Chain co-ordination -- 2. Policy communities -- 3. Potential effects of chain co-ordination on trust relations -- 3.1 Losing enacted trust -- 3.2 Cannibalising trust -- 4. Potential effects of chain co-ordination on co-operative structures -- 4.1 Selection and exclusion -- 4.2 Organisational blindness -- 4.3 Blocking innovation -- 5. Conclusions -- 5.1 Ambiguous outcomes -- 5.2 Lock-in effects -- 5.3 Further research -- References -- Chapter 9 Food safety governance from a European perspective: risk assessment and non-scientific fa
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Anna Szajkowska -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Division of powers between the EU and the Member States -- 2.1 Treaty framework for EU food safety regulation -- 2.2 Multi-level regulation through Article 114 TFEU -- 2.3 Race to the top -- 3. Scientific food safety governance -- 3.1 European Food Safety Authority -- 3.2 Risk analysis methodology: science and other legitimate factors -- 4. Standard of judicial review of EU health protection measures -- 4.1 Discretion -- 4.2 Cost-benefit analysis: proportionality stricto sensu? -- 5. Science in national derogations -- 5.1 National versus EU scientific opinions -- 5.2 National versus EU interpretations of a scientific opinion -- 6. Other legitimate factors in EU and national legislation -- 6.1 Other legitimate factors lowering the level of health protection -- 6.2 Other legitimate factors raising the level of health protection -- 6.3 Flexible harmonisation -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part 3 Transnational law, resource complexes and food security -- Chapter 10 Farmland and food security: protecting agricultural land in the United States -- Margaret Rosso Grossman -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Agricultural production and global food demand -- 2.1 US agricultural production and exports -- 2.2 Global population growth and food demand -- 2.3 Meeting global food demand: agricultural land -- 2.4 The claim of renewable fuels on crop production -- 3. Agricultural land in the United States -- 3.1 Farmland loss -- 3.2 Effect of farmland loss -- 4. Programmes to protect agricultural land from conversion -- 4.1 Federal programmes -- 4.2 State programmes -- 5. Agricultural land quality -- 5.1 Conservation compliance on highly erodible cropland -- 5.2 Conservation incentives -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11 Intellectual property rights and food security: the international legal battle over pate
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Melanie Wiber
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hospes, Otto Governing food security : Law, politics and the right to food Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers,c2010 ISBN 9789086861576
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