Agricultural Law / Fisheries Law Books

Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. The Conservation of Earth’s Biodiversity: An Overview 2. Applications of Modern Agricultural Biotechnology and its Impact on Biodiversity 3. The Biosafety Protocol and the Application of Precautionary Principles to Safeguard Biodiversity 4. Negotiating the Safe Use of Biotechnology to Conserve Agrobiodiversity: Reconciling the Biosafety Protocol with the WTO Regime 5. The CBD, Nagoya Protocol and Trips: Pathways to Harmonize Rules on Plant Genetic Resources 6. Safeguarding Agrobiodiversity, Farmers’ Rights and Food Security 7. Analysing Biodiversity Governance in Developing Nations with Special Reference to Asean 8. The Islamic Approach to Conserving Biodiversity 9. Conclusions and Suggestions

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Book SynopsisThis introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law. The text will help students of land-based industries with little or no legal background to appreciate and identify issues that may require referral or consultation with legal counsel. This new edition is fully revised and updated, particularly addressing developments in taxation and trade, and includes a new chapter on criminal law, an area of increasing relevance to agriculture.Each concise chapter addresses a different legal issue that those employed in agriculture and agribusiness may face, and both federal law and representative examples of state law are included. In addition to traditional topics such as contracts, property law, and estate planning, the book also covers more contemporary issues such as organic certification, animal law, genetically engineered crops, and food safety.Agricultural law extends beyond those Trade Review"This is the best textbook available in agricultural law specifically geared towards non-lawyers. It is clear, easy to read and covers the major topics of relevance for agribusinesses." - Marne Coit, MSEL, JD, LLM, North Carolina State University, USPraise for the first edtition "Excellent in terms of coverage, in terms of substantive content in each chapter, in organization, and in writing style. Professor Feitshans conveys a great amount of information crisply and clearly. He also uses examples to explain and to clarify the text, which greatly enhances the reader’s understanding of the legal concepts and issues." – Drew L. Kershen, Earl Sneed Centennial Professor of Law (Emeritus), University of Oklahoma, USA. "There has been a great need for an agricultural law textbook and Agricultural and Agribusiness Law fills that need. Theodore Feitshans is one of the preeminent agricultural law professors in the United States and does an excellent job of outlining complex legal issues in a practical way for law students." – Tiffany Dowell, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M University, USA. "This textbook is perfect for undergraduates or others trying to gain a basic understanding of legal issues impacting agriculture. From contracts to environmental law, topics are covered in a quick and easy to understand fashion. I highly encourage faculty and students alike to take a look at Professor Feitshans’ book." – Paul Goeringer, Research Associate and Extension Legal Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland, USA.Table of Contents1 Understanding the U.S. legal system 2 Finding legal materials 3 Torts 4 Nuisance and trespass 5 Contracts 6 Real property 7 Landlord-tenant law 8 Personal property 9 Contracts for the sale of goods 10 Secured transactions in real and personal property 11 Estate planning and farm transition 12 Family law, health, and end-of-life care 13 Water law 14 Business entities 15 Animal law 16 Organic, sustainable, fair trade, local, and urban agriculture 17 Genetically modified organisms and intellectual property law 18 Food safety 19 Criminal law 20 Pesticide law 21 Conservation and environmental law 22 Labor 23 Taxation 24 International trade 25 Federal farm program law

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Book SynopsisCongress has been active in establishing federal policy for the agricultural sector on an ongoing basis since the 1930s. Over the years, as economic conditions and technology have evolved, Congress has regularly revisited agricultural policy through periodic farm legislation. Across these decades, the breadth of policy areas addressed through such farm bills has expanded beyond providing support for a limited number of agricultural commodities to include establishing programs and policies that address a broad spectrum of related areas, such as agricultural conservation, credit, rural development, domestic nutrition assistance, trade and international food aid, organic agriculture, forestry, and support for beginning and veteran farmers and ranchers, among others. On June 21, 2018, the House voted to approve H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, an omnibus farm bill that would establish farm and food policy for the next five years. The Senate passed its version of H.R. 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, on 28 June 2018.

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Book SynopsisCongress has been active in establishing federal policy for the agricultural sector on an ongoing basis since the 1930s. Over the years, as economic conditions and technology have evolved, Congress has regularly revisited agricultural policy through periodic farm legislation. Over these decades, the breadth of policy areas addressed through such farm bills has expanded beyond providing support for a limited number of agricultural commodities to include establishing programs and policies that address a spectrum of related areas, such as agricultural conservation, credit, rural development, domestic nutrition assistance, trade and international food aid, organic agriculture, and support for beginning and veteran farmers and ranchers, among others.Congress sets national food and agriculture policy through periodic omnibus farm bills. The 115th Congress has the opportunity to establish the future direction of farm and food policy because many of the provisions in the current farm bill expire in 2018. Chapter 1 provides a title-by-title summary of the policies and provisions in H.R. 2 and compares them with current law.The Trump Administration released its first full budget request on 23 May 2017. It proposes specific amounts for the FY2018 Agriculture appropriation as well as legislative changes to various mandatory spending programs, including those in the farm bill. Chapter 2 separates the Presidents budget request into proposed changes for agriculture based on congressional jurisdiction.Over time, farm bills have tended to become more complicated and politically sensitive. As a result, the timeline for reauthorization has become less certain. Chapter 3 reports on the budget issues shaping the 2018 farm bill while chapter 4 examines the major legislative milestones for the last 12 farm bills covering 54 years.Three farm bills have contained an energy title: the 2002 farm bill, the 2008 farm bill, and the 2014 farm bill. For all three farm bills, the major energy programs expire and lack baseline funding. Chapter 5 presents data on 2014 farm bill budgetary authority for energy provisions, as well as the original budget authority for Title IX programs under the previous 2008 farm bill.The timing and consequences of expiration vary by program across the breadth of the farm bill. There are two principal expiration dates: September 30 and December 31. Chapter 6 reports on the possible consequences of expiration including minimal disruption (if the program is able to be continued via appropriations), ceasing new activity (if its authorization to use mandatory funding expires), or reverting to permanent laws enacted decades ago (for the farm commodity programs).

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive yet accessible book offers an in-depth overview of the law relating to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It explores both the initial objectives set out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, and also those policies that have emerged as a result of the growth of competencies within the EU. Examining the four regulations that currently govern the CAP in the areas of direct payments, rural development, finance, and the common organisation of the markets, the author considers their interpretation in the case-law of the Court of Justice of the EU and the General Court. Throughout this insightful book, the European Commission's proposals for CAP reform are discussed and an astute assessment of their National Strategic Plans concludes that Member States would benefit from greater discretion in fine-tuning the principles of the policy established at European level to the particular characteristics of their national agricultural sector. Students and scholars of European law and agricultural law more specifically will find this book a structured and nuanced guide to existing and future policy at both EU and WTO levels. Policy makers and practitioners will also find its up to date treatment of the law a valuable reference.Trade Review'This book is a superb survey of the legal foundations of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. Beautifully written and bang up to date, Professor McMahon has drawn on a wide range of sources, including basic legislation, Commission delegated and implementing acts, and Court of Justice judgements, to produce this outstanding and comprehensive study. It will be an indispensable guide and reference for all who work with or are affected by the EU s agricultural policy.' --Alan Matthews, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland'This very timely new text examines a complex, yet under explored area of European Union Law. In so doing it provides a comprehensive and highly accessible analysis of the legal framework. The author provides a clear account of the laws underpinning the wide range of policy areas that converge within Europe's present Common Agricultural Policy. Additionally he addresses the challenges that will drive reform and which light the path toward Europe's future agricultural policy.' --Brian Jack, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, UK'Professor McMahon's book is a comprehensive and academically rigorous examination of the EU's common agricultural policy from its beginnings in the 1950s. Concise and readable, it shows how the CAP has evolved over 70 years and includes a detailed analysis of the latest proposals for the CAP into the 2020s. The book is well laid out, easy to navigate and full of detail. The author has done all those interested in EU agriculture an invaluable service.' --Bernard O'Connor, Nctm, BrusselTable of ContentsContents Preface 1. A Framework for the CAP 2. The Direct Payments Regulation 3. The Rural Development Regulation 4. The Finance Regulation 5. The Common Organisation Regulation 6. The Reform Proposals Index

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Book SynopsisAgriculture has been the unruly horse of the GATT/WTO system for a long time and efforts to halter it are still ongoing. This Research Handbook focuses on aspects of agricultural production and trade policy that are recognized for their importance but are often kept out of the limelight, such as the implication of national and international agricultural production and trade policies on national food security, global climate change, and biotechnology. It provides a summary of the state of the WTO agriculture negotiations as well as the relevant jurisprudence, but also, and uniquely, it focuses on the new and emerging issues of agricultural trade law and policy that are rarely addressed in the existing literature. With contributions from a multi-disciplinary team of leading analysts from around the world, this Research Handbook will appeal to trade negotiators, international trade law and policy academics as well as postgraduate students in the field. Contributors include: K. Anderson, D. Blandford, M. Cardwell, I. Carreno, M.G. Desta, G. Dutfield, C. Haberli, L.A. Jackson, T. Josling, E. Laurenza, A. Matthews, J.A. McMahon, F. Smith, S. SwitzerTrade Review'A particular strength of this collection is the multidisciplinary perspective which is brought to bear on international agricultural trade law. It provides a valuable resource for scholars and policymakers in this critical area.' --Michael Blakeney, International Trade Law and Regulation'The range of topics covered in this volume is multi-faceted and various. . . Practitioners with clients involved in agri-business will be particularly interested in the broad spectrum of matters discussed, as will trade negotiators, policy advisors and graduate students in this vital and fascinating field.' --Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: Preface Joseph A. McMahon and Melaku Geboye Desta 1. The Agreement on Agriculture: Setting the Scene Joseph A. McMahon and Melaku Geboye Desta 2. Food Security and International Agricultural Trade Regulation: Old Problems, New Perspectives Fiona Smith 3. Do WTO Rules Improve or Impair the Right to Food? Christian Häberli 4. The Impact of WTO Agricultural Trade Rules on Food Security and Development: An Examination of Proposed Additional Flexibilities for Developing Countries Alan Matthews 5. Plant Intellectual Property, Food Security and Human Development: Institutional and Legal Considerations, and the Need for Reform Graham Dutfield 6. GMOs: Trade and Welfare Impacts of Current Policies and Prospects for Reform Kym Anderson and Lee Ann Jackson 7. Addressing the Solution of SPS and TBT Matters through Trade Negotiations Eugenia Laurenza and Ignacio Carreño 8. Private Standards and Trade Tim Josling 9. Climate Change Policies for Agriculture and WTO Agreements David Blandford 10. Biofuels, Food Security and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Stephanie Switzer 11. Stretching the Boundaries of Multifunctionality? An Evolving Common Agricultural Policy within the World Trade Legal Order Michael Cardwell Index

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Book SynopsisIntellectual Property and Agriculture addresses the important but largely neglected question of intellectual property's relationship to the production, processing, marketing, and circulation of agricultural inputs, products, and practices. This comprehensive literature review assesses the work of scholars from law, history, anthropology, science and technology studies, economics, and plant science on plants and plant genetic resources, late twentieth century international intellectual property agreements, and geographical indications of origin.Trade Review‘Coming in at almost two thousand pages and one hundred articles, it would be easy to see this collection as yet another reader - a snapshot of the state of the art of a field. But this is a big wolf in sheep's clothing, labeled as a collection about intellectual property and agriculture but using the literature on the topic to brilliantly question, and expand, what we mean by both “IP” and “agriculture”, and their relationship. The whole is much more than the sum of the parts - and there are many different parts contributed by scholars in law, anthropology, economics, environmental studies, history of science, and plant science. The relationship between intellectual property and agriculture will never look the same, or more interesting than this.’Table of ContentsVolume I Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Brad Sherman and Susannah Chapman PART I FOOD SECURITY AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY 1. Ola Tveitereid Westengen and Dan Banik (2016), ‘The State of Food Security: From Availability, Access and Rights to Food Systems Approaches’, Forum for Development Studies, 43 (1), 113–34 2. Marc Edelman (2014), ’Food Sovereignty: Forgotten Genealogies and Future Regulatory Challenges’, Journal of Peasant Studies: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2: Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty, 41 (6), 959–78 3. David Nally (2011), ‘The Biopolitics of Food Provisioning’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36 (1), January, 37–53 PART II COLLECTING, BREEDING AND CIRCULATING 4. Staffan Müller-Wille (2003), ‘Nature as a Marketplace: The Political Economy of Linnaen Botany’, History of Political Economy, 35 (Supplement), December, 154–72 5. Lucile H. Brockway (1979), ‘Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens’, American Ethnologist, 6 (3), August, 449–65 6. W. M. Hays (1905), ‘Distributing Valuable New Varieties and Breeds’, Journal of Heredity, 1 (1), January, 58–65 7. Willet M. Hays (1906), ‘American Work in Breeding Plants and Animals’, Journal of Heredity, 2 (1), January, 155–67 8. Berris Charnley (2013), ‘Seeds Without Patents: Science and Morality in British Plant Breeding in the Long Nineteenth-Century’, Revue économique, 64 (1), January, 69–88 9. Paolo Palladino (1994), ‘Wizards and Devotees: On the Mendelian Theory of Inheritance and the Professionalization of the Agricultural Science in Great Britain and the United States, 1880–1930’, History of Science, 32 (4), December, 409–44 10. Jack Kloppenburg, Jr. and Daniel Lee Kleinman (1987), ‘The Plant Germplasm Controversy: Analyzing Empirically the Distribution of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources’, BioScience, 37 (3), March, 190–98 11. Cary Fowler and Toby Hodgkin (2004), ‘Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Assessing Global Availability’, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 29, November, 143–79 12. David Nally and Stephen Taylor (2015), ‘The Politics of Self-Help: The Rockefeller Foundation, Philanthropy and the ‘Long’ Green Revolution’, Political Geography, 49, November, 51–63 13. Prabhu L. Pingali (2012), ‘Green Revolution: Impacts, Limits, and the Path Ahead’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 109 (31), July, 12302–308 14. Paul W. Heisey, John L. King and Kelly Day Rubenstein (2005), ‘Patterns of Public Sector and Private-Sector Patenting in Agricultural Biotechnology’, AgBioForum, Special Issue: Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Agricultural Biotechnology, 8 (2–3), 73–82 PART III SITUATING AGRICULTURAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 15. Garden and Forest (1890), ‘Protection for Originators of New Plants’, Scientific American, 63 (7), August 16th, 105 16. Daniel J. Kevles (2007), ‘Patents, Protections, and Privileges: The Establishment of Intellectual Property in Animals and Plants’, Isis, 98 (2), June, 323–31 17. Glenn E. Bugos and Daniel J. Kevles (1992), ‘Plants as Intellectual Property: American Practice, Law, and Policy in World Context’, Osiris: Science after ‘40, 7 (1), 74–104 18. Richard C. Lewontin (1998), ‘The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian’, Monthly Review, 50 (3), July–August, 72–84 19. Thom van Dooren (2008), ‘Inventing Seed: The Nature(s) of Intellectual Property in Plants’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26 (4), August, 676–97 20. Brad Sherman (2008), ‘Taxonomic Property’, Cambridge Law Journal, 67 (3), November, 560–84 21. Bronwyn Parry (2012), ‘Taxonomy, Type Specimens, and the Making of Biological Property in Intellectual Property Rights Law’, International Journal of Cultural Property, Special Issue: Intangible Property at the Periphery: Expanding Enclosure in the 21st Century, 19 (3), August, 251–68 PART IV AGRICULTURAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REIMAGINED 22. Knowles A. Ryerson (1933), ‘History and Significance of the Foreign Plant Introduction Work of the United States Department of Agriculture’, Agricultural History, 7 (3), July, 110–28 23. Lyman Carrier (1937), ‘The United States Agricultural Society, 1852–1860: Its Relation to the Origin of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Land Grant Colleges’, Agricultural History, 11 (4), October, 278–88 24. A. F. Kelly and J. D. C. Bowring (1990), ‘The Development of Seed Certification in England and Wales’, Plant Varieties and Seeds, 3 (3), 139–50 25. Kathy J. Cooke (2002), ‘Expertise, Book Farming, and Government Agriculture: The Origins of Agricultural Seed Certification in the United States’, Agricultural History, 76 (3), Summer, 524–45 26. Guntra A. Aistara (2014), ‘Actually Existing Tomatoes: Politics of Memory, Variety and Empire in Latvian Struggles over Seeds’, Focaal: Seeds – Grown, Governed, and Contested, 69, June, 12–27 27. Tamara Wattnem (2016), ‘Seed Laws, Certification and Standardization: Outlawing Informal Seed Systems in the Global South’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 43 (4), 850–67 28. D. D. Ellis, K. A. Garland-Campbell, J. A. Grotenhuis, M. M. Jenderek and J. F. Pedersen (2010), ‘Crop Registration: The Pathway to Public Access of Plant Genetic Materials to Build Crops for the Future’, Crop Science, 50 (4), July, 1151–60 29. Kara W. Swanson (2011), ‘Food and Drug Law as Intellectual Property Law: Historical Reflections’, Wisconsin Law Review, 2011 (2), 331–97 30. Lodo Lodi (1977), ‘Usage, Practices and Contracts for the Distribution of New Plant Varieties’, UPOV Newsletter, 10, 5–12 31. O. F. Cook (1925), ‘Cotton Improvement Laws in California’, Journal of Heredity, 16 (9), September, 335–38 PART V NON-STATE AGRICULTURAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 32. Chidi Oguamanam (2013), ‘Open Innovation in Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture’, Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property, 13 (1), 11–50 33. Jack Kloppenburg (2010), ‘Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession: Biological Open Source and the Recovery of Seed Sovereignty’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 10 (3), July, 367–88 34. Jack Kloppenburg (2014), ‘Re-purposing the Master’s Tools: The Open Source Seed Initiative and the Struggle for Seed Sovereignty’, Journal of Peasant Studies: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2: Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty, 41 (6), 1225–46 35. Katharine A. Legun (2015), ‘Club Apples: A Biology of Markets Built on the Social Life of Variety’, Economy and Society, 44 (2), 293–315 36. Stanley P. Kowalski and R. David Kryder (2002), ‘Golden Rice: A Case Study in Intellectual Property Management and International Capacity Building’, Risk: Health, Safety and Environment, 13 (1), Spring, 47–67 37. Deborah Fitzgerald (1993), ‘Farmers Deskilled: Hybrid Corn and Farmers’ Work’, Technology and Culture, 34 (2), April, 324–43 38. Stephen Hubicki and Brad Sherman (2005), ‘The Killing Fields: Intellectual Property and Genetic Use Restriction Technologies’, UNSW Law Journal, 28 (3), November, 740–57 PART VI AGRICULTURAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACROSS DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES 39. Debra L. Blair (1999), ‘Intellectual Property Protection and its Impact on the U.S. Seed Industry’, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, 4 (1), Spring, 297–330 40. Suresh Pal, Robert Tripp and Niels P. Louwaars (2007), ‘Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Breeding and Biotechnology: Assessing Impact on the Indian Seed Industry’, Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (3), January 20th, 231–40 41. Glenn E. Bugos (1992), ‘Intellectual Property Protection in the American Chicken-Breeding Industry’, Business History Review: High-Technology Industries, 66 (1), Spring, 127–68 42. James L. Luby and David S. Bedford (2015), ‘Cultivars as Consumer Brands: Trends in Protecting and Commercializing Apple Cultivars via Intellectual Property Rights’, Crop Science, 55 (6), November–December, 2504–10 43. Paul J. Heald and Susannah Chapman (2012), ‘Veggie Tales: Pernicious Myths about Patents, Innovation, and Crop Diversity in the Twentieth Century’, University of Illinois Law Review, 2012 (4), 1051–102 44. Vincent Moses (1982), ‘Machines in the Garden: A Citrus Monopoly in Riverside 1900–1936’, California History, 61 (1), April, 26–35 PART VII EMERGING ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 45. Hannah Landecker (2011), ‘Food as Exposure: Nutritional Epigenetics and the New Metabolism’, BioSocieties, 6 (2), June, 167–94 Volume II Contents: Introduction An introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I PART I TRADE MARKS 1. Daniel J. Kevles (2013), ‘A Primer of A, B, Seeds: Advertising, Branding, and Intellectual Property in an Emerging Industry’, University of California, Davis, Law Review, 47 (2), December, 657–78 2. Milton E. Abramson (1956), ‘Cows, Brands and Trademarks’, Journal of the Patent Office Society, 38 (12), December, 861–65 3. Jay Sanderson (2016), ‘Health Conscious and Confused: Why ‘Healthy’ Trade Marks Matter to Consumers’, UNSW Law Journal, 39 (2), July, 658–83 PART II GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS 4. Dev S. Gangjee (2017), ‘Proving Provenance? Geographical Indications Certification and its Ambiguities’, World Development, 98, October, 12–24 5. Rosemary J. Coombe and Nicole Aylwin (2011), ‘Bordering Diversity and Desire: Using Intellectual Property to Mark Place-Based Products’, Environment and Planning A, 43 (9), September, 2027–42 6. Sarah Bowen (2010), ‘Developing from Within? The Potential for Geographical Indications in the Global South’, Journal of World Intellectual Property, Special Issue: The Law and Economics of Geographical Indications, 13 (2), March, 231–52 7. Erica A. Farmer (2014), ‘Codifying Consensus and Constructing Boundaries: Setting the Limits of Appellation d’origine contrôlee Protection in Bourdeaux, France’, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 37 (1), May, 126–44 8. Sarah Besky (2014), ‘The Labor of Terroir and the Terroir of Labor: Geographical Indication and Darjeeling Tea Plantations’, Agriculture and Human Values, 31 (1), March, 83–96 PART III PLANT PATENTS 9. Robert C. Cook (1931), ‘The First Plant Patent’, Journal of Heredity, 22 (10), October, 313–19 10. Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman (2007), ‘Organisms and Manufactures: On the History of Plant Inventions’, Melbourne University Law Review, 31 (2), 539–68 11. Cary Fowler (2000), ‘The Plant Patent Act of 1930: A Sociological History of its Creation’, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 82 (9), 621–44 PART IV PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION 12. Noel J. Byrne (1983), ‘The Agritechnical Criteria in Plant Breeders’ Rights Law’, Industrial Property, 22 (10), October, 293–303 13. Jay Sanderson (2006), ‘Essential Derivation, Law and the Limits of Science’, Law in Context: Patent Law and Biological Inventions, 24 (1), December, 34–53 14. Michael S. Camlin (2003), ‘Plant Cultivar Identification and Registration – The Role for Molecular Techniques’, Acta Horticulturae, XXVI International Horticultural Congress: Biotechnology in Horticultural Crop Improvement: Achievements, Opportunities and Limitations, 625, September, 37–47 15. Jay Sanderson (2011), ‘Towards a (Limited) Cascading Right: What is the Appropriate Scope of Protection for Plant Breeding?’, UNSW Law Journal, 34 (3), November, 1104–21 16. Charles Lawson (2015), ‘The Breeder’s Exemption under UPOV 1991, the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Nagoya Protocol’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 10 (7), July, 526–35 17. Ross Kingwell and Alistair Watson (1998), ‘End-Point Royalties for Plant Breeding in Australia’, Agenda, 5 (3), 323–34 18. Noah Zerbe (2005), ‘Biodiversity, Ownership, and Indigenous Knowledge: Exploring Legal Frameworks for Community, Farmers, and Intellectual Property Rights in Africa’, Ecological Economics, 53 (4), June, 493–506 19. Chidi Oguamanam (2015), ‘Breeding Apples for Oranges: Africa’s Misplaced Priority over Plant Breeders’ Rights’, Journal of World Intellectual Property, 18 (5), September, 165–95 20. Pratibha Brahmi and Vijaya Chaudhary (2011), ‘Protection of Plant Varieties: Systems across Countries’, Plant Genetic Resources, 9 (3), August, 392–403 21. Emma Trustum-Behan and Charles Lawson (2016), ‘The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act 2001 (In) and New Plant Varieties, Extant Varieties and Farmers’ Varieties: A New Form of Property?’, Australian Intellectual Property Journal, 27 (2), 73–87 22. Guntra A. Aistara (2012), ‘Privately Public Seeds: Competing Visions of Property, Personhood, and Democracy in Costa Rica’s Entry into CAFTA and the Union for Plant Variety Protection (UPOV)’, Journal of Political Ecology, 19 (1), 127–44 23. Rajeswari Kanniah (2005), ‘Plant Variety Protection in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand’, Journal of World Intellectual Property, 8 (3), May, 283–310 24. Mark D. Janis and Jay P. Kesan (2002), ‘U.S. Plant Variety Protection: Sound and Fury...?’, Houston Law Review: Symposium, 39 (3), 727–78 PART V UTILITY PATENTS 25. Edwin J. Prindle (1920), ‘The Farmer and the Patent System’, Journal of the Patent Office Society, 3, 113–22 26. Daniel J. Kevles (2015), ‘Inventions, Yes; Nature, No: The Products-of-Nature Doctrine from the American Colonies to the U.S. Courts’, Perspectives on Science, Special Issue on Gene Patenting, 23 (1), Spring, 13–34 27. Paul van der Kooij (2010), ‘Towards a Breeder’s Exemption in Patent Law?’, European Intellectual Property Review, 32 (11), 545–52 28. Richard H. Stern (2014), ‘Bowman v Monsanto: Exhaustion versus Making’, European Intellectual Property Review, 36 (4), January, 255–61 29. Drew L. Kershen (2004), ‘Of Straying Crops and Patent Rights’, Washburn Law Journal, 43 (3), Spring, 575–610 30. Gillian N. Rattray (2002), ‘The Enola Bean Patent Controversy: Biopiracy, Novelty, and Fish-and-Chips’, Duke Law and Technology Review, 1 (1), 1–7 31. Michael A. Kock and Floris ten Have (2016), ‘The ‘International Licensing Platform – Vegetables’: A Prototype of a Patent Clearing House in the Life Science Industry’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 11 (7), July, 496–515 32. William H. Phillips (1994), ‘Making a Business of It: The Evolution of Southern Cotton Gin Patenting, 1831–1890’, Agricultural History: Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1793–1993: A Symposium, 68 (2), Spring, 80–91 33. William Lesser (1994), ‘Royalty Collection for Patented Livestock’, European Intellectual Property Review, 16 (10), 441–44 34. Ashley Laine Cooper (2011), ‘Peanuts, Politics and the Plumpy’nut Patent’, European Intellectual Property Review, 33 (8), 481–89 PART VI COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS, TRADE SECRETS 35. Jacob Strobel (2014), ‘Agriculture Precision Farming: Who Owns the Property of Information? Is it the Farmer, the Company who Helps Consults the Farmer on how to Use the Information Best, Or the Mechanical Company who Built the Technology Itself?’, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, 19 (2), Summer, 239–56 36. Meredith G. Lawrence (2011), ‘Edible Plagiarism: Reconsidering Recipe Copyright in the Digital Age’, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 14 (1), Fall, 187–223 37. Mark D. Janis (2004), ‘Supplemental Forms of Intellectual Property Protection for Plants’, Bio-Science Law Review, Special Issue: Protection of Intellectual Property and Access to Plant Genetic Resources, 7 (1), 32–44 38. Peter K. Trzyna (1987), ‘Are Plants Protectable Under the Design Patent Act?’, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 69 (9), 487–502 PART VII LATE-TWENTIETH CENTURY INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 39. Gerard Downes (2004), ‘TRIPs and Food Security: Implications of the WTO’s TRIPs Agreement for Food Security in the Developing World’, British Food Journal, 106 (5), 366–79 40. Mohamed Ali Mekouar (2002), ‘Treaty Agreed on Agrobiodiversity: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture’, Environmental Policy and Law, 32 (1), December, 20–25 41. Cary Fowler (2004), ‘Regime Change: Plant Genetic Resources in International Law’, Outlook on Agriculture, 33 (1), March, 7–14 42. Michael Halewood, Elsa Andrieux, Léontine Crisson, Jean Rwihaniza Gapusi, John Wasswa Mulumba, Edmond Kouablan Koffi, Tashi Yangzome Dorji, Madan Raj Bhatta and Didier Balma (2013), ‘Implementing “Mutually Supportive” Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms under the Plant Treaty, Convention on Biological Diversity, and Nagoya Protocol’, Law, Environment and Development Journal, 9 (1), i–ii, 70–96 43. Cary Fowler, Geoffrey Hawtin, Rodomiro Ortiz, Masa Iwanaga and Jan Engles (2004), ‘The Question of Derivatives: Promoting Use and Ensuring Availability of Non-Proprietary Plant Genetic Resources’, Issues in Genetic Resources, 12, 7–26 44. Charles Lawson (2009), ‘Intellectual Property and the Material Transfer Agreement under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture’, European Intellectual Property Review, 31 (5), 244–54 45. Bart Van Vooren (2016), ‘Impact on the Food Industry of New EU Rules Implementing the Nagoya Protocol’, European Food and Feed Law Review, 11 (3), 220–25 46. Daniel F. Robinson and Miranda Forsyth (2016), ‘People, Plants, Place, and Rules: The Nagoya Protocol in Pacific Island Countries’, Geographical Research, Special Issue: Legal Geography, 54 (3), August, 324–35 PART VIII FARMERS’ RIGHTS, BIOPROSPECTING, AND BIOPIRACY 47. Craig Borowiak (2004), ‘Farmers’ Rights: Intellectual Property Regimes and the Struggle over Seeds’, Politics and Society, 32 (4), December, 511–43 48. Vandana Shiva (1993), ‘Farmers’ Rights, Biodiversity and International Treaties’, Economic and Political Weekly, 28 (14), April 3rd, 555–60 49. Stephen B. Brush (1999), ‘Bioprospecting the Public Domain’, Cultural Anthropology, 14 (4), November, 535–55 50. Paul J. Heald (2003), ‘The Rhetoric of Biopiracy’, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, 11 (2), 519–46 51. Karine Peschard (2017), ‘Seed Wars and Farmers’ Rights: Comparative Perspectives from Brazil and India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 44 (1), 144–68 52. L. Slade Lee (2012), ‘Horticultural Development of Bush Food Plants and Rights of Indigenous People as Traditional Custodians – the Australian Bush Tomato (Solanum centrale) Example: A Review’, Rangeland Journal, 34 (4), 359–73 53. Henrietta Fourmile-Marrie (1999), ‘Bushtucker: Some Food for Thought’, Artlink, 19 (4), December, 34–37 54. Noah Zerbe (2007), ‘Contesting Privatization: NGOs and Farmers’ Rights in the African Model Law’, Global Environmental Politics, 7 (1), February, 97–116 55. Rene Salazar, Niels P. Louwaars and Bert Visser (2007), ‘Protecting Farmers’ New Varieties: New Approaches to Rights on Collective Innovations in Plant Genetic Resources’, World Development: Property Rights, Collective Action, and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources, 35 (9), September, 1515–28 Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume covers an impressively wide ground of issues related to (and originating from) the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, from both a domestic and an international perspective. Legal, economic and political matters are treated by top-class scholars. Each individual chapter is worth reading, and collectively they constitute a treasure chest of highly valuable insights into the operation and deficits of the CAP.'- Stefan Tangermann, former OECD Director for Trade and AgricultureFollowing the conclusion of the latest round of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2013, the Research Handbook on EU Agriculture Law provides an up-to-date discussion of these reforms and the changing landscape in which the CAP now operates.Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and with international contributors from across Europe and the United States, the Handbook commences with analyses of the legal instruments which implement the reformed CAP, before moving on to consider questions of land use, the role of agriculture within the wider food chain and the international dimension. In these contexts, particular issues identified include: the environmental impact of past, present and future farming practices; the ability of the food chain to accommodate consumer preferences and scientific innovation; and the hurdles to be cleared before international consensus can be reached on a whole range of agricultural imperatives.As well as providing a state-of-the-art point of reference for academics, this comprehensive book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers dealing with these new challenges faced by agriculture in the EU.Contributors: J. Antón, D. Baldock, D. Blandford, L. Bodiguel, M.N. Cardwell, M.G. Desta, A. Di Lauro, M. Dobbs, C. Häberli, D. Harvey, K. Hassapoyannes, W. Howarth, B. Jack, T. Josling, I. Kireeva, C. MacMaoláin, A. Matthews, J.A. McMahon, B. O Connor, R. O'Gorman, C. Potter, C. Rodgers, F. Smith, S. Switzer, J. VandenbergheTrade Review‘This volume covers an impressively wide ground of issues related to (and originating from) the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, from both a domestic and an international perspective. Legal, economic and political matters are treated by top-class scholars. Each individual chapter is worth reading, and collectively they constitute a treasure chest of highly valuable insights into the operation and deficits of the CAP.’ -- Stefan Tangermann, former OECD Director for Trade and AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: PART I THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY 1. What does the History of the Common Agricultural Policy Tell Us? David Harvey 2. The Direct Payments Regime: Delivering ‘a Fair Standard of Living for the Agricultural Community’? Michael N. Cardwell 3. The Single Common Market Organization Regulation Jan Vandenberghe 4. Risk Management in Agriculture: What Role for Policy in the New Common Agricultural Policy? Jesús Antón PART II LAND USE AND THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY 5. Agricultural Multifunctionality, Working Lands and Public Goods: Contested Models of Agri-environmental Governance under the Common Agricultural Policy Clive Potter 6. Twisted Together: European Agriculture, Environment and the Common Agricultural Policy David Baldock 7. Environmental Governance and Land Use Policy in Tension? Applying Environmental Impact Assessment to Intensive Agriculture Christopher Rodgers 8. The Common Agricultural Policy in 2020: Responding to Climate Change David Blandford and Katharina Hassapoyannes 9. European Union Biofuels Policy: Past, Present and Future? Stephanie Switzer 10. Agriculture and Water Pollution Brian Jack 11. Integrated Water Resources Management and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy William Howarth PART III THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND THE FOOD CHAIN 12. Food Labelling Requirements in European Union Law: Creating the Right Package of Measures to Achieve the Aims of Common Agricultural Policy 2020 Caoimhín MacMaoláin 13. The New European Regulation on Quality Schemes for Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs Irina Kireeva 14. Organic Food and Farming in the European Union Tim Josling 15. Of Eggs, and Seals, and Leghold Traps: Internal and External Public Morality as a Factor in European Union Animal Welfare Legislation Roderic O’Gorman 16. Co-existence of Genetically Modified Organisms in the European Union: a Veritable Choice for Whom? Mary Dobbs 17. Food Safety Policy in a Time of Technofoods: Risk, Governance and Legal Issues Relating to Nanofoods Luc Bodiguel and Alessandra Di Lauro PART IV THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 18. The Impact of the Doha Round on the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Bernard O’Connor 19. Mind the Gap: ‘Greening’ Direct Payments and the World Trade Organization Fiona Smith 20. The Story of Community Preference for Food Security Christian Häberli 21. The European Union Common Agricultural Policy: Contributing towards the Millennium Development Goal on the Reduction of Hunger? Melaku Geboye Desta 22. The Common Agricultural Policy and Development Alan Matthews 23. Implementing the European Consensus on Development: Trade and Agriculture Joseph A. McMahon PART V CONCLUSIONS 24. Looking Back to Look Forward Michael N. Cardwell and Joseph A. McMahon Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from across the globe, this timely book astutely untangles the climate-food web and critically explores the nexus between climate change, agriculture and law, upon which food security and climate resilient development depends. Focusing through the lens of various domestic and international legal systems, this book addresses conceptual notions such as 'systems thinking' and climate change governance, as well as practical matters such as payments for ecosystem services and government subsidies for biofuels. Concerning itself with the vulnerability and resilience of both people and agro-ecosystems, it shows how climate action can yield high returns for agriculture as the primary source of economic activity for poor populations. Far reaching, this book also explores under-researched areas, including the linkages between invasive species law, climate change and agricultural law and the underlying dynamics of agroecosystem vulnerability. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses in existing agricultural laws and policies, it assesses new and innovative tools for addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation in the agricultural sector, before laying out a future research agenda. Scholars in the fields of climate change law, land use and agricultural law will find this key publication essential reading, as will practitioners desiring a deeper understanding of the agriculture and climate change nexus.Contributors include: R.W. Adler, M.J. Angelo, R.M. Bratspies, A. Cosby, L.H. Gunderson, C. Häberli, K.H. Hirokawa, A. Kennedy, R. Kibugi, E. Le Gal, P. Martin, M. Nowlin, A. Odoemene, J.P. Pietrafesa , P.A. Pietrafesa, J.B. Ruhl, S. Sauer, E. Spiegel, J. VerschuurenTrade Review'This Research Handbook brings together a range of eminent scholars from across disciplines and across the globe to provide an insightful contribution to the ongoing debate on the complex interaction between climate and agriculture. In particular, while there is full recognition of the inherent difficulties in developing adaptation and mitigation strategies, there is also a most welcome willingness to make concrete suggestions as to the way forward.' --(Michael N. Cardwell, University of Leeds, UK)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Untangling the climate-food web: achieving food security and agricultural climate-resilience Mary Jane Angelo 2. Climate change and agriculture under the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change and related documents Jonathan Verschuuren 3. Resilience and transformation of agro-ecosystems in a changing climate Lance H. Gunderson 4. Climate change, complexity, agriculture and challenged governance Paul Martin 5. Climate change and water law in agriculture Robert W. Adler 6. Climate change and invasive species law in agriculture: a southern hemisphere view of key legal and institutional issues in Australia Elodie Le Gal 7. Genetically modified food crops in an era of climate change: an answer in search of a problem Rebecca M. Bratspies 8. Adapting agriculture through land use controls Keith H. Hirokawa 9. Much ado about methane: intensive animal agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions Michelle Nowlin and Emily Spiegel 10. Adaptation of agricultural trade and investment rules to climate change Christian Häberli 11. Agriculture and payments for ecosystem services in the era of climate change J.B. Ruhl 12. Climate change and agrofuels: Brazilian ethanol and the Cerrado biome Sérgio Sauer, José Paulo Pietrafesa and Pedro Araujo Pietrafesa 13. Adaptation to climate change in smallholder agriculture in Kenya: the role of law Robert Kibugi 14. Agricultural land use conflict in the context of climate change: an Australian case study Amanda Kennedy and Amy Cosby 15. Climate change and land grabbing Akachi Odoemene Index

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Book SynopsisModern food governance is increasingly hybrid, involving not only government, but also industry and civil society actors. This book deftly analyzes the unfolding interplay between public and private actors in global and local food governance. Split into three parts, chapters focus on the legitimacy and integrity of private food governance, the hybridization of EU Food Law and hybridization in transnational food governance. Within these key areas, food scholars from diverse disciplinary fields present a fascinating array of original empirical case studies, showing hybrid governance arrangements in China, Europe and North America. Through these practical examples, they consider in detail how the responsibilities and risks inherent in these arrangements are allocated, how their legitimacy is ensured and the effect that they have on industry and government practice. Timely and discerning, this book will appeal to legal students and scholars focusing on regulation and governance and, in particular, those considering its relation to food. It will also provide guidance to policymakers on how to shape and direct the trends, types and outcomes of hybrid food governance.Contributors include: D. Casey, E. Fagotto, M. Faure, A. Fearne, M. Garcia, T. Havinga, M. Hussein, A. Kalfagianni, K. Kindji, K. Kirezieva, K. Kottenstede, P. Luning, T.D. Lytton, L.K. McAllister, T.A. Roche, E. Thomann, B.M.J. van der Meulen, P. VerbruggenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Hybridization of food governance: an analytical framework Paul Verbruggen and Tetty Havinga PART I legitimacy and integrity of private food governance 2. Structuring private food governance: GLOBALGAP and the legitimating role of the state and rule intermediaries Donal Casey 3. Resolving gaps in third-party certification for food safety hybridization Elena Fagotto 4. Oversight of private food safety auditing in the United States: A hybrid approach to auditor conflict of interest Timothy D. Lytton and Lesley K. McAllister 5. Hybridity in action: Accountability dilemmas of public and for-profit food safety inspectors in Switzerland Eva Thomann and Fritz Sager PART II Hybridisation of EU Food Law 6. Responsibility in EU food law Bernd M.J. van der Meulen 7. Management-based regulation of food safety in the United Kingdom Mohamud Hussein, Marian Garcia Martinez and Andrew Fearne 8. The influence of context on food safety governance: Bridging the gap between policy and quality management Klementina Kirezieva and Pieternel Luning PART III Hybridisation in transnational food governance 9. The Global Food Safety Initiative and state actors: Paving the way for hybrid food safety governance Tetty Havinga and Paul Verbruggen 10. Transnational private food standards in the People’s Republic: Hybridization with Chinese characteristics Kai Kottenstede 11. Domestic responses to transnational private governance: The Marine Stewardship Council in Alaska, Australia and Ecuador Agni Kalfagianni and Tiffany Andrade Roche 12. Overcoming food safety challenges through regulatory cooperation: Evidence from the UEMOA Kévine Kindji and Michael Faure Index

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Book SynopsisFrom soil degradation and biodiversity loss to the coexistence of malnutrition and obesity, many of the largest challenges facing humanity today are underpinned by food and agriculture systems. In order to alleviate and resolve them, global governance of food and agriculture needs to be reformed. Unravelling the array of international regulatory instruments, this timely book provides the first systematic analysis of the international law surrounding food systems.International Agricultural Law and Policy provides a systems-based analysis of the rules that intersect with the physical elements of agriculture against a framework of commonly held norms. The author conducts a comprehensive examination not only of the rules, but also the implementation and broader socioeconomic, scientific and political context. By, exploring and clarifying the relationship between food security and the right to food and sustainability, Johnson closes the gap between the disparate international rules that govern food and agriculture, while exploring the practical implications of these overlapping regimes.This unique book is an invaluable resource for lawyers and social scientists working within food and agriculture systems and their governance and lays the much-needed groundwork for future research. For policy makers in the food and agricultural space, this book provides a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the global regulatory landscape that influences law and policy processes.Trade Review‘This book gives a wide-ranging view of recent agricultural challenges in the agricultural law arena. The book is insightful and worth reading for legal and non-legal members of government, academia, and professionals who either work or are interested in agricultural study.’ -- Eva Johan, Asian Journal of International Law‘Given the important need to consider the future for food security and agriculture globally, Hope Johnson’s book should be considered a valuable contribution to the subject matter.’ -- Andrew Chalet, Law Institute Journal'To understand how international law helps or hinders food security, a systemic account of the existing fragmented laws and institutions is needed, which should include at the very least trade, investment, environment, human rights and climate agreements. Hope Johnson does this and more, using a policy-oriented approach that places agriculture at the centre. The result is a compelling case for a broader inclusion of the subjects and objects of international regulation, and an enhanced participation of food insecure groups and countries.' --Margaret Young, University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. A human rights-based approach to regulating food systems for food security 3. Land 4. Soils 5. Water 6. Seeds 7. Pesticides 8. World Trade 9. Conclusion and recommendations Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal food insecurity is a growing issue. At a time when the world's population is increasing and agricultural production is challenged by climate change, it is estimated that around a third of the food produced globally is lost or wasted. This book examines the problem of food loss and waste (FLW) and the policies that could be enacted to remedy this fundamental global concern.Michael Blakeney provides a well-rounded view of FLW from production to plate. He begins by examining the problems associated with defining and measuring food waste, arguing that more reliable data on FLW is key to the creation of effective FLW reduction policies. He goes on to address the drivers of FLW, the environmental impacts of FLW and the moral and ethical considerations that are linked to the issue. Food Loss and Waste concludes with a critical assessment of FLW reduction strategies across the food supply chain.Providing the first comprehensive assessment of FLW and its remedies, this book will be of great interest to scholars working in the fields of food security, agricultural law and policy and rural economics. Policy makers involved in food policy and security will also find this a valuable resource as it identifies and analyses FLW policies on an international scale.Trade Review'Food waste is a problem of staggering global size. In this tour de force Michael Blakeney unravels the networked complexity of the problem and advances creative regulatory solutions for helping to reduce the scale of the problem.' --Peter Drahos, European University Institute, Italy'The subject of food waste is increasingly compelling the attention of policy makers and stakeholders along the food supply chain. In the absence of a developed literature on the subject, Professor Blakeney's book provides a comprehensive review of the drivers of food waste and remedies for its minimization. It also provides valuable insights into the formulation of food waste policy.' --Kadambot Siddique, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Food Loss and Waste and Food Security 2. Definitions and Metrics 3. Environmental Impacts 4. Drivers of Food Waste 5. Ethical Issues 6. Regulatory Options 7. Strategies for FLW Reduction 8. Policy Formulation Index

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from over 30 international legal scholars, this topical Research Handbook on International Food Law provides a reflective and crucial examination of the rules, power dynamics, legal doctrines, societal norms, and frameworks that govern the modern global food system. The Research Handbook analyses the interlinkages between producers and consumers of food, as well as the environmental effects of the global food network and the repercussions on human health. Chapters explore the development of food law and governance strategies, the regulation of novel foods, including insects, and the application of technology and science in food production, such as genetically engineered food. The insightful contributions examine the legal challenges facing the global food system and suggest practical recommendations for future research and reform. Providing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on the complex legal landscape of food production and consumption, this Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of food law, consumer law, public international law, and regulation and governance, as well as food system advocates, international lawyers, and policymakers.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: making a case for international food law 1 Michael T. Roberts PART I DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FOOD LAW ROLE OF LAW IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF FOOD 2 What’s the use of food regime analysis for international law? 17 Anne Saab 3 Food law’s agrarian question: capital, global farmland, and food security in an age of climate disruption 29 William Boyd 4 The intersection of international, European, and global food law: rules, trends, and challenges 63 Ferdinando Albisinni DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD LAW AND GOVERNANCE STRATEGIES 5 Drafting national food laws in a globally connected world 95 Jessica Vapnek and Melvin Spreij 6 The future of planning for food system governance 117 Laurie J. Beyranevand and Emily M. Broad Leib CULTURAL PRESERVATION IN DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FOOD LAW 7 The food–water nexus in the post-revolutionary Mexican Supreme Court 148 Peter L. Reich 8 Food law and third-world approaches to international law (TWAIL): ingredients in a movement, techniques for analysis, recipes for reform, and a future menu 166 Ernesto Hernández-López 9 Community and geography in a holistic approach to food law 183 Marsha A. Echols COMPARATIVE LAW APPLIED TO FOOD LAW 10 Comparative food law 199 Bernd van der Meulen and Bart Wernaart PART II INTERNATIONAL FOOD GOVERNANCE AND LAW FRAMEWORKS FOOD TRADE AND SAFETY 11 Global governance of food safety: the role of the FAO, WHO, and Codex Alimentarius in regulatory harmonization 227 Neal D. Fortin 12 Interactions between food safety protection and trade liberalization in the WTO and FTAs 243 Ching-Fu Lin 13 The Food Safety Modernization Act and international trade rules 261 David A. Wirth 14 ESG, supply chain due diligence and food systems transformation: changes and challenges 291 Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile 15 The regulation of insects as food 315 Steph Tai 16 Food safety governance and good practices for better rulemaking 332 Juanjuan Sun 17 Codex Alimentarius at home and abroad: the regulatory costs of developing and implementing international and national food-safety standards 347 Brian A. Fink LABELING AND CERTIFICATION 18 Sugar labeling: challenges and approaches 369 Alexia Brunet Marks 19 Private third-party verification of product claims: lessons from kosher certification 387 Timothy D. Lytton 20 Class action litigation targeting the food industry: U.S. and international perspectives 409 Tommy Tobin ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND FOOD 21 Climate change issues in international food law 427 Francesco Bruno 22 Bodies as food system sacrifice zones 443 Margot J. Pollans TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE 23 The digital food economy, from food regulation to data governance 471 Pinghui Xiao and Vicki Waye 24 International regulation of genetically engineered food 498 Joanna K. Sax ANIMAL WELFARE 25 Using the law to enhance the welfare of food-producing animals: recognising sentience, raising standards 515 Caoimhín MacMaoláin HUMAN RIGHTS AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY 26 When crits go to the UN: conversations with Olivier De Schutter, Hilal Elver and Michael Fakhri about the right to food 534 Amy J. Cohen and Nadia C.S. Lambek Index 552 Prepared by Michael T. Roberts

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a succinct overview of the principles and rules that guide international food law. Neal D. Fortin explores how the globalisation of food supply chains has impacted international food law, making it a pressing concern for contemporary lawmakers. Exploring the maintenance of standards, rules and laws, alongside issues in relation to economics, trade agreements, and free-trade, this comprehensive book provides insight into the future of international food law.Key Features: Offers a historical overview of international food law, covering the key basic concepts Provides insights into key international trade agreements, agencies, and food safety controls Provides guidance on techniques for comparing and understanding the food law of different regions Incisive and accessible, this Advanced Introduction offers invaluable discussion of the major issues in the field for international law scholars, particularly those focusing on food law. It will also be a beneficial read for government officials involved in international trade and lawyers who deal with international food law looking for a better understanding of the history and key components of the topic.Trade Review‘Neal D. Fortin is a gifted teacher. Fortin’s clarity of thought and expression, organization, and insight, which have long marked his teaching and leadership in international food law, are displayed vividly in this much needed book. Advanced Introduction to International Food Law is a terrific primer for the beginning food law scholar seeking to understand the framework of international food law and an essential resource for the seasoned food law scholar to consult frequently for information and context.’ -- Michael T. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and background 2. International food law at a glance 3. The law of international food trade 4. The WTO agreements and dispute settlement 5. Convergence, divergence, and complexity in global food law 6. Final thoughts Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a succinct overview of the principles and rules that guide international food law. Neal D. Fortin explores how the globalisation of food supply chains has impacted international food law, making it a pressing concern for contemporary lawmakers. Exploring the maintenance of standards, rules and laws, alongside issues in relation to economics, trade agreements, and free-trade, this comprehensive book provides insight into the future of international food law.Key Features: Offers a historical overview of international food law, covering the key basic concepts Provides insights into key international trade agreements, agencies, and food safety controls Provides guidance on techniques for comparing and understanding the food law of different regions Incisive and accessible, this Advanced Introduction offers invaluable discussion of the major issues in the field for international law scholars, particularly those focusing on food law. It will also be a beneficial read for government officials involved in international trade and lawyers who deal with international food law looking for a better understanding of the history and key components of the topic.Trade Review‘Neal D. Fortin is a gifted teacher. Fortin’s clarity of thought and expression, organization, and insight, which have long marked his teaching and leadership in international food law, are displayed vividly in this much needed book. Advanced Introduction to International Food Law is a terrific primer for the beginning food law scholar seeking to understand the framework of international food law and an essential resource for the seasoned food law scholar to consult frequently for information and context.’ -- Michael T. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and background 2. International food law at a glance 3. The law of international food trade 4. The WTO agreements and dispute settlement 5. Convergence, divergence, and complexity in global food law 6. Final thoughts Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book sets out a comprehensive governance framework to raise the welfare of animals across EU agriculture and the agri-food chain. Diane Ryland argues that a global response is needed to promote animal wellbeing in agriculture, focusing on the importance of the relations between standard-setting bodies.Through a comparative analysis of major animal welfare standards, this book develops a transnational soft law hybrid governance model for animal welfare in agriculture. It examines, critically, animal welfare standards in the public and private spheres, investigating the links between the two and how they can be advanced. Drawing on extensive case studies, chapters explore animal welfare comprehensively for specific species and at various stages, in EU agriculture and the food supply chain. Ultimately, Ryland shows that concerned and informed consumers will be the drivers of change for effective global animal law.Animal Welfare Governance in EU Agriculture will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in animal law, environmental law, regulation and governance, standardisation, and agricultural economics. It will also be an essential guide for activists and policymakers interested in improving the welfare of animals raised and traded in agriculture.Trade Review‘An illuminating exploration of animal welfare within the framework of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. This insightful book offers a deep understanding of the intricate dynamics between policy, standards, and the well-being of animals in agriculture. A must-read for those seeking to navigate the complexities of animal welfare governance.’ -- Mariagrazia Alabrese, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1 Introduction to Animal Welfare Governance in EU Agriculture: hybrid standards, trade and values 2 Animal welfare in EU agriculture 3 EU soft law and policy 4 The EU Common Agricultural Policy 5 Private animal welfare standards: motivation and effect 6 Private farm assurance: a comparative review 7 Hybrid governance in a value chain 8 Conclusion to Animal Welfare Governance in EU Agriculture. A contribution to global animal law Index

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Book SynopsisThrough an extended study of agricultural land use and policy, Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law presents a comprehensive legal analysis of proposals for protecting natural capital stocks and the sustainable use of ecosystem services, critiquing the legal challenges in designing and operationalising a workable natural capital approach.Evaluating legal considerations at international, national and local levels, chapters canvas the challenges behind creating an optimal policy mix when shifting towards a natural capital approach, including entrenched private property rights and privacy and intellectual property concerns. Exploring the instruments necessary to support improved valuation and accounting for nature in the development of a natural capital framework, including digital technologies, regulation and market-based instruments, the book then considers the legal, technical and social barriers that impede their use. With an international outlook on environmental laws, trade rules and values, it concludes by arguing that operationalising natural capital governance requires designing and implementing legal and regulatory frameworks to support the identification, valuation, protection and restoration of natural capital.Global in scope, the book will prove invaluable for scholars of environmental and agricultural law, environmental economics and policy design. Identifying practical options for legal, regulatory and governance design, it will also be useful for governmental policymakers and environmental consultants.Trade Review‘Using Australia as the primary case study, Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law provides what is unquestionably the most complete and up-to-date assessment of the role law can play to advance the use of natural capital and ecosystem services economics and ecology in a wide array of policy domains, from market-based instruments to regulation to international trade and environmental law. It is indispensable reading not only for those new to the concepts of natural capital and ecosystem services, but also to those who have followed these themes closely since their appearance on the environmental policy stage 25 years ago.’ -- J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University Law School, US‘This book is essential reading for developing effective and feasible approaches to natural capital governance. Property rights regimes and legal frameworks need to co-evolve to better support participatory valuation and conservation of natural capital stocks as common assets. The sustainable well-being of humanity and the rest of nature depends on it.’ -- Robert Costanza, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I EXISTING CHALLENGES 1. Introduction: natural capital and the role of law 2. Negotiating existing property rights regimes 3. Digital technologies, decision-making and data governance PART II REGULATORY INSTRUMENTS 4. Market-based instruments, ecosystem services and natural capital 5. Natural capital governance through regulation PART III THE GLOBAL CONTEXT 6. International trade rules and values to support natural capital 7. Recognising natural capital through international environmental law 8. The law and future pathways for natural capital Index

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Book SynopsisThis work debates and investigates the cross-compliance system - whereby farmers comply with certain standards relating to the environment, food safety and animal and plant health. It discusses cross-compliance in the context of existing standards, on-farm costs and the competitiveness of farm businesses. Analysing the economics of regulation both within the internal market of the EU and the broader world market by examining a broad range of agricultural products. This resource will be of value to agriculture and resource economists, policy makers, researchers and students in environmental and agricultural policy and modelling.Table of Contents1: Introduction PART I: PUBLIC CONCERNS - A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE 2: The role of cross compliance in greening EU agricultural policy 3: State and federal responses to increasing input intensity in the USA 4: Canadian agricultural environmental policy: from the right to farm to farming right 5: Decentralized, outcome oriented management of agricultural environmental issues in New Zealand 6: Voluntary certification and legal standards in the EU PART II: TRADE, COMPETITIVENESS AND PUBLIC CONCERNS - A COMMODITY APPROACH 7: Environmental and health standards in the dairy sectors of the EU, the US and New Zealand 8: An EU/US perspective on nutrient management policies and growth hormone bans in the beef sector 9: Good agricultural and environmental conditions in the EU and their implications for international trade in cereals 10: Trade effects of environmental and animal welfare standards in the hog sectors of the European Union, United States and Canada 11: Environmental standards in the fruits and vegetables sector of Spain PART III: EMERGING POLICY PERSPECTIVES 12: Evaluating WTO institutions for resolving trade disputes involving non-tariff measures: four cases involving Brazil 13: Meeting standards in EU agriculture: the changing policy context 14: The pollution haven hypothesis and the location of livestock production: two North American case studies 15: Cost effectiveness of sediment abatement policies in potato production: assessing policies in Canada, the Netherlands and the U.S. 16: Environmental compliance costs in developed country agricultures: implications for trade and competitiveness

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the success of the author's earlier work Debt Arrangement and Attachment, this new volume of annotated legislation has been expanded to include the amended text of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987.

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Book SynopsisAgriculture has been the unruly horse of the GATT/WTO system for a long time and efforts to halter it are still ongoing. This Research Handbook focuses on aspects of agricultural production and trade policy that are recognized for their importance but are often kept out of the limelight, such as the implication of national and international agricultural production and trade policies on national food security, global climate change, and biotechnology. It provides a summary of the state of the WTO agriculture negotiations as well as the relevant jurisprudence, but also, and uniquely, it focuses on the new and emerging issues of agricultural trade law and policy that are rarely addressed in the existing literature. With contributions from a multi-disciplinary team of leading analysts from around the world, this Research Handbook will appeal to trade negotiators, international trade law and policy academics as well as postgraduate students in the field. Contributors include: K. Anderson, D. Blandford, M. Cardwell, I. Carreno, M.G. Desta, G. Dutfield, C. Haberli, L.A. Jackson, T. Josling, E. Laurenza, A. Matthews, J.A. McMahon, F. Smith, S. SwitzerTrade Review'A particular strength of this collection is the multidisciplinary perspective which is brought to bear on international agricultural trade law. It provides a valuable resource for scholars and policymakers in this critical area.' --Michael Blakeney, International Trade Law and Regulation'The range of topics covered in this volume is multi-faceted and various. . . Practitioners with clients involved in agri-business will be particularly interested in the broad spectrum of matters discussed, as will trade negotiators, policy advisors and graduate students in this vital and fascinating field.' --Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: Preface Joseph A. McMahon and Melaku Geboye Desta 1. The Agreement on Agriculture: Setting the Scene Joseph A. McMahon and Melaku Geboye Desta 2. Food Security and International Agricultural Trade Regulation: Old Problems, New Perspectives Fiona Smith 3. Do WTO Rules Improve or Impair the Right to Food? Christian Häberli 4. The Impact of WTO Agricultural Trade Rules on Food Security and Development: An Examination of Proposed Additional Flexibilities for Developing Countries Alan Matthews 5. Plant Intellectual Property, Food Security and Human Development: Institutional and Legal Considerations, and the Need for Reform Graham Dutfield 6. GMOs: Trade and Welfare Impacts of Current Policies and Prospects for Reform Kym Anderson and Lee Ann Jackson 7. Addressing the Solution of SPS and TBT Matters through Trade Negotiations Eugenia Laurenza and Ignacio Carreño 8. Private Standards and Trade Tim Josling 9. Climate Change Policies for Agriculture and WTO Agreements David Blandford 10. Biofuels, Food Security and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Stephanie Switzer 11. Stretching the Boundaries of Multifunctionality? An Evolving Common Agricultural Policy within the World Trade Legal Order Michael Cardwell Index

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and up-to-date guide to the complex statutory regime which regulates crofting law in Scotland. The first text to cover the Crofting Reform Acts of 2007 and 2010 and the Crofting (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2013.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the legal regimes, both national and global that govern GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms).

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Book SynopsisThis publication provides guidance on legislative issues regarding land consolidation in alignment with the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security as well as international human rights law. It is based on good practices in Europe, and focuses on rural areas.Land consolidation is a highly effective land management instrument that allows for the improvement of the structure of agricultural holdings and farms, increasing their economic and social efficiency and bringing benefits both to right holders as well as to society in general. Since land consolidation gives mobility to land ownership and other land rights, it may also facilitate the allocation of new areas with specific purposes other than agriculture, such as for public infrastructure or nature protection and restoration.While this guide encourages the exchange of good practices between countries with ongoing national land consolidation programmes, it mainly targets countries in the following cases: where there is not yet a specific legal framework for land consolidation; where land consolidation instruments have a short history or are in the initial phase of development; or where a new legal framework is needed due to new challenges, such as climate change adaptation in agriculture or nature protection measures in rural areas..

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