Rethinking Food Systems

1. Introduction: In Search of Better Options: Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Legal Tools for Transforming Food Systems
Priscilla Claeys, Nadia C. S. Lambek

Part I. Institutionalizing New Approaches to Managing Food Systems and Addressing Hunger

2. Vía Campesina’s Struggle for the Right to Food Sovereignty: From Above or from Below?
Priscilla Claeys

3. Opportunities and Challenges for Food Sovereignty Policies in Latin America: The Case of Nicaragua
Saulo Araújo, Wendy Godek

4. Implementing the Right to Food in Uganda: Advances, Challenges and the Way Forward
Isabella Rae

Part II. Regulating for Change

5. Respecting and Protecting the Right to Food: When States Must Get Out of the Kitchen
Nadia C. S. Lambek

6. Regulating Land Grabs: Third Party States, Social Activism and International Law
Lea Brilmayer, William J. Moon

7. From Threat to Opportunity? Problems with Codes of Conduct for Land Grabbing
Saturnino M. Borras, Jennifer C. Franco

Part III. Governing for Better Food Systems

8. International Economic Law and the Right to Food
Carmen G. Gonzalez

9. The Right to Food, Farmers’ Rights and Intellectual Property Rights: Can Competing Law Be Reconciled?
Hans Morten Haugen

10. The Reform of the Committee on World Food Security: The Quest for Coherence in Global Governance
Olivier De Schutter

Avainsanat: Environment, Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Public International Law, Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, Political Economy