The Challenge of Food Security

The Challenge of Food Security addresses one of the key development challenges of our time. It examines issues related to food security in a comprehensive manner that covers both theoretical perspectives and policy challenges. It will be a key reference book for anyone interested in issues related to food security. -- Philippe Cullet, University of London, UK Edward Elgar's brave book, The Challenge of Food Security is a timely book and raises awareness of the seriousness of the matter of food security. -- Sally Ramage, The Criminal Lawyer This is a timely book which addresses one of the greatest challenges for international regulation: food security. The book is a comprehensive treatment of various aspects of food security from its origins to the relationship between food security and other values, the role that commodity trading plays in exacerbating food insecurity, the importance of adequate food governance, together with specific food security problems like fish, water and genetic resources. The editors should be congratulated on a stimulating collection of essays that brings together a diverse range of scholars and which sheds real light on the complex dimensions of the food security debate. -- Fiona Smith, University College London, UK

Edited by Rosemary Rayfuse, Emerita Scientia Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice and Nicole Weisfelt, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Contents: Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. The International Policy and Regulatory Challenges of Food Security: An Overview Rosemary Rayfuse and Nicole Weisfelt PART II: ACCESS TO FOOD 2. A Fresh Look at the Roots of Food Insecurity Craig Pearson 3. Food Security in the Great Lakes Region: Reconciling Trade Liberalisation with Human Security Goals Anagha Joshi 4. Right to Food, Sustainable Development and Trade: All Faces of the Same Cube? Elisabeth Brgi Bonanomi PART III: SUSTAINABILITY AND FOOD SECURITY 5. Crop Disease, Management and Food Security Rebecca Ford 6. The Contribution of Plant Genetic Resources to Food Security Bert Visser and Niels Louwaars 7. Water and Food Security Colin Chartres PART IV: FOOD, TRADE AND INVESTMENT 8. The WTO and Food Security: Whats Wrong with the Rules? Christian Hberli 9. The Financialisation of Agricultural Commodity Futures Trading: The 200608 Global Food Crisis Nicola Colbran 10. Food Security, Sustainability and Trade Distortions: Fisheries Subsidies and the WTO Margaret Young 11. Land Grabbing in the Shadow of the Law: Legal Frameworks Regulating the Global Land Rush Lorenzo Cotula PART V: FOOD GOVERNANCE 12. Global Food Security Governance: The Committee on World Food Security, Comprehensive Framework for Action and the G8/G20 Matias Margulis 13. Regional Initiatives on Food Security Md Saidul Islam and Iris Carla De Jesus 14. Food Security in the Era of Retail Governance Doris Fuchs, Katharina Glaab, Agni Kalfagianni and Richard Meyer-Eppler Index