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Food Systems Governance: Challenges for justice, equality and human rights
Contributor(s): Kennedy, Amanda (Editor), Liljeblad, Jonathan (Editor)
ISBN: 1138939439     ISBN-13: 9781138939431
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy
- Social Science
- Nature | Ecology
Dewey: 363.8
LCCN: 2015042337
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 220 pages
 
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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 role of law to form the pivot around which these issues are addressed in society in the form of food governance mechanisms. The chapters in this book address a range of issues in food governance revolving around questions of justice, fairness, equality and human rights. They identify different issues regarding inequality in access and control over food governance. Some address generic governance and institutional issues across a range of international contexts, while others present case studies, including from Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, UK and West Africa. The book offers directions for reform of the law and legal institutions to mitigate the dangers of inequality and promote greater fairness in food governance.