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Food Systems Governance: Challenges for justice, equality and human rights book cover

1st Edition

Food Systems Governance Challenges for justice, equality and human rights

Edited By Amanda Kennedy, Jonathan Liljeblad Copyright 2016
220 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas. This book shows that food governance issues can occur in many ways and at many points along the food chain. The risks and impacts, particularly with the increasing globalisation of food systems, are often distributed in unequal ways. It is the... Read more

1. Introduction: Food Systems Governance: Challenges for Justice, Equality and Human Rights 

Amanda Kennedy and Jonathan Liljeblad 

2. Food System Governance: A Systematic Literature Review 

Otto Hospes and Anke Brons 

3. Food Sovereignty: Governance and Exclusion in an Alternative Social Movement 

Kristal Jones and John T. Eshleman 

4. Seed Sovereignty and Inequality: An Analysis of Seed Systems and Their Impacts on Small-Scale Farmers 

Elise Wach 

5. Transnational Legal Processes of the Right to Food: Lessons Learned from Papua, Indonesia 

Irene I. Hadiprayitno 

6. Foucault’s Evaluation of the UN Call for Human Rights in Global Food Governance 

Jonathan Liljeblad 

7. Sustaining Food Production in the Anthropocene: Influences by the Regulation of Crop Biotechnology 

Mark Perry 

8. Plant Genetic Resources Interdependence: Re-integrating Farmers into the Global Food System 

Chidi Oguamanam 

9. Contaminated Land Law of China: A Possible Way to Achieve Food Safety? 

Xiaobo Zhao 

10. Life-Cycle Regulation of Food Safety in China: A Legal Perspective 

Qin Tianbao and Wei Lele

Biography

Amanda Kennedy is an associate professor and the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Australia. 

Jonathan Liljeblad is a lecturer at the University of New England Law School, Australia. He was a Fulbright Scholar, Myanmar (2014–15).

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