Governing Food Security: Laws, Politics and the Right to Food

Otto Hospes (Editor) and Irene Hadiprayitno (Editor)

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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...
  • ISBN10 9086861571
  • ISBN13 9789086861576
  • Publish Date 15 October 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Wageningen Academic Publishers
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 370
  • Language English