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Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law
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Hardcover. Rethinking Food Systems Editor(s): Lambek, Nadia C. S.; Wong, Adrienna; Brilmayer, Roberta L.; Claeys, Priscilla; Brilmayer, Lea. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JPVH; KCP; LBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 556.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400777774
SKU
V9789400777774
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99-15
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