Environmental Resilience and Food Law

Download or read book Environmental Resilience and Food Law written by Gabriela Steier and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agrobiodiversity and agroecology go hand-in-hand in promoting environmental resilience in international food systems as well as climate change resilient food policy. This book contextualizes how various legal frameworks address agrobiodiversity and agroecology around the globe and makes it accessible for audiences of students, practitioners, educators, and scholars. Some chapters focus on the legal regulation of agroecology from a food law perspective. Others are geared toward providing regulators, lawmakers and attorneys with the scientific and policy background of those concepts, so that they are equipped in the field of food law in everyday practice and policy. Climate change dimensions of the issues are woven throughout the book.