Accounting for Hunger - The Right to Food in the Era of Globalisation

Informationen zum Autor Olivier De Schutter was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2008–14) and is now a Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He teaches at the University of Louvain (UCL) and at SciencesPo (Paris). He has been a visiting Professor at Columbia University and at UC Berkeley. Kaitlin Y Cordes is a human rights lawyer and writer who focuses on the right to food, business and human rights, and the rights of workers within the global food system. Zusammenfassung This new work contributes to addressing the challenge of eradicating global hunger, by looking at the obstacles which prevent the implementation of a right to food in the era of globalisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Accounting for Hunger: An Introduction to the Issues Olivier De Schutter and Kaitlin CordesPart I: Addressing Power Imbalances in the Food Systems2. The Impact of Agribusiness Transnational Corporations on the Right to Food Kaitlin Y Cordes3. The Transformation of Food Retail and Marginalisation of Smallholder Farmers Margaret Cowan Schmidt4. Biofuels and the Right to Food: An uneasy partnership Ann Sofi e ClootsPart II: Trade and Aid: An Enabling International Environment 5. International Trade in Agriculture and the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter6. How to Phase Out Rich Country Agricultural Subsidies Without Increasing Hunger in the Developing World Jennifer Mersing7. Invoking the Right to Food in the WTO Dispute Settlement Process: The Relevance of the Right to Food to the Law of the WTO Boyan Konstantinov8. Food Aid: How It Should Be Done Loreto Ferrer Moreu

Product details

• Authors: Kaitlin Y Cordes, Olivier De Schutter, Olivier De Cordes Schutter, Professor Olivier De Cordes Schutter
• Assisted by: Kaitlin Y Cordes (Editor), Kaitlin Y. Cordes (Editor), Olivier De Schutter (Editor), Olivier De Schutter (Editor), Professor Olivier De Schutter (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2011
• EAN: 9781849462266
• ISBN: 978-1-84946-226-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Studies in International Law; Studies in International Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics