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Accounting for hunger [the ...
The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the current situation of global hunger; it considers how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets; and it explains how the right to food contributes to identifying solutions at the domestic and international levels. The right to food, it argues, can
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monografia Rebiun24820204 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun24820204 m o d | cr#-n--------- 120405s2011 enk ob 001 0 eng d 2012392087 1-84731-827-4 1-4725-6577-0 1-280-12560-8 9786613529466 1-84731-848-7 UPVA 997920403403706 CBUC 991001013881406712 CBUC 991010888263806709 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng 338.19 Accounting for hunger electronic resource] the right to food in the era of globalisation edited by Olivier De Schutter and Kaitlin Y. Cordes Right to food in the era of globalisation Oxford Portland, Ore. Hart Publishing 2011 Oxford Portland, Ore. Oxford Portland, Ore. Hart Publishing 1 online resource (287 p.) 1 online resource (287 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Studies in international law v. 36 Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index Prelims; Acknowledgements; Contents; Author Biographies; 1. Accounting for Hunger: An Introduction to the Issues; Part I. Addressing Power Imbalances in the Food Systems; 2. The Impact of Agribusiness Transnational Corporations on the Right to Food; 3. The Transformation of Food Retail and Marginalisation of Smallholder Farmers; 4. Biofuels and the Right to Food: An uneasy partnership; Part II. Trade and Aid: An Enabling International Environment; 5. International Trade in Agriculture and the Right to Food 6. How to Phase Out Rich Country Agricultural Subsidies Without Increasing Hunger in the Developing World7. Invoking the Right to Food in the WTO Dispute Settlement Process: The Relevance of the Right to Food to the Law of the WTO; 8. Food Aid: How It Should Be Done; Index The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the current situation of global hunger; it considers how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets; and it explains how the right to food contributes to identifying solutions at the domestic and international levels. The right to food, it argues, can English Right to food Food supply- International cooperation Human rights Electronic books Cordes, Kaitlin Schutter, Olivier de 1-84946-226-7 Studies in international law (Oxford, England) v. 36