Agricultural Law: Current Issues from a Global Perspective

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Agricultural Law from a Global Perspective: An Introduction (Mariagrazia Alabrese)....Pages 1-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Sustainable Agricultural Production, Environmental Sustainability and Food Security: How to Frame the Legal Intervention (Elisa Morgera, Andrea Saba)....Pages 15-18 The Ecological and Perpetual Dimensions of European Food Security: The Case for Sustainable Agriculture (Alicia Epstein)....Pages 19-51 International Law on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Towards a New Balance? (Anna G. Micara)....Pages 53-82 Results-Based Agri-Environmental Schemes for Delivering Ecosystem Services in the EU: Established Issues and Emerging Trends (Andrea Saba)....Pages 83-122 The Legal Instruments for Agri-Environmental Goals and the Influence of International Factors: The Case of Swiss Agricultural Policies (Christa Preisig)....Pages 123-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 The Emerging Interests of Consumers: Answers from the Agri-Food Regulation (Vito Rubino)....Pages 155-162 Insects in Agriculture: Traditional Roles and Beyond (Valeria Paganizza)....Pages 163-179 Animal Welfare Standards in Agriculture: Drivers, Implications, Interface? (Diane Ryland)....Pages 181-210 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)....Pages 211-229 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)....Pages 231-244 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 Land Governance, Investment Law, Agriculture, and the Rights of Local Populations (Adriana Bessa, Margherita Brunori)....Pages 247-253 Access to Land and Security of Tenure in the Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly (Margherita Brunori)....Pages 255-292 Global Land Rush, Water Grabbing and the Human Right to Water (Francesca Spagnuolo)....Pages 293-309 The Regulatory Vicious Circle of Investment Operations in Agriculture (Federica Violi)....Pages 311-340 Between Customary and Statutory Tenure: Understanding Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Zambia (Margherita Baldarelli)....Pages 341-365 Agricultural Land Ownership as Food Sovereignty: The Case of Slovakia (Katarína Dirgasová, Jarmila Lazíková)....Pages 367-388