Food sovereignty and food security : concepts and legal framework (original) (raw)

Analysing the prospects and challenges of food sovereignty

In this paper, I review the current academic debates exploring food sovereignty framework as an effective conceptual tool potential of resolving numerous problems associated with the rights of small and medium scale farmers, peasants and food producers such as increasing landlessness and land grabs yet also shed a light on the difficulties for its practical application at policy level and mostly focusing in a context where urban agriculture and feminisation of agriculture have become common phenomena.

THE FIRST STAGE OF A LONG MARCH TO A SPECIAL LAW OF FOOD SECURITY, 2013

The fact that a concept is long in forming in the mind of Man and to bear fruit in his world does not mean that it is, in principle, unworthy of legal study. It is sometimes important to know how to look beyond legal concepts with deep historical roots, in order to distinguish what exactly makes new concepts singular and worthwhile. Gilles Martin, who explored the realm that slowly but surely became environmental law, saw that very early on. He showed the way. And he paid the price that explorers pay. It is a pleasure to pay tribute to him as we set out on a long march along a path that, as we will see, crosses his.

Food Sovereignty: A Critical Case

2017

For decades, the global food security strategy has operated on the assumption that poverty and hunger result from a state of underdevelopment, which can be alleviated through the distribution of technology to increase farm-level productivity. In more recent years, transnational corporate involvement within food security has led to a global imposition of intellectual property rights over seed and agriculture science, thus catalyzing a process of accumulation by dispossession. Those who have been dispossessed of their seed, knowledge, food cultures, and social relations of production, however, have not stood idly by. NGO, peasant and human rights organizations have galvanized around food sovereignty, a radical-rights based alternative to the business as usual approach of food security. Broadly defined, food sovereignty is the peoples’ right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It has also been described as ‘repossessing the commons’, or taking back those aspects of life, ...

The Right to Food Sovereignty in International Law

The Right to Food Sovereignty in International Law, Ordine internazionale e diritti umani, (4/2021). , 2021

ABSTRACT With the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) in 2018, the right to food sovereignty was officially included in an international legal document for the first time. The concept of food sovereignty has been widely analyzed in sociology and politics, whilst it is rarely described in the legal context. This article aims to clarify the relationship among existing norms of international law such as the right to self-determination, the right to development and the right to adequate food with the right to food sovereignty. In order to clarify this relationship the article compares them with food sovereignty as described in the UNDROP and it highlights the similarities and the differences among each of these norms. The article also includes an analysis of the concept of food sovereignty as included in national legal systems.