CSR-Manager.org - The Blueprint for Corporate Responsibility  - Newsletter  -  28 August 2012

By Prof. Carmen G. Gonzalez (Seattle University School of Law)
The global food system is exceeding ecological limits while failing to meet the nutritional needs of a large segment of the world’s population. While law could play an important role in facilitating the transition to a more just and ecologically sustainable food system, the current legal framework fails to regulate food and agriculture in an integrated manner. The international legal framework governing food and agriculture is fragmented into three self-contained regimes that have historically operated in isolation from one another: international human rights law, international environmental law, and international trade law. International trade law has taken precedence over human rights and international environmental law to the detriment of small farmers and the environment.  
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By World Food Programme
The recent drought in the United States and its impact on maize prices has focused the world's attention back onto global food prices. The latest data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization shows that prices are in fact up a little after a period of decline. High food prices not only put a strain on the already tight food budgets of the world’s poor, but raise the price of helping them with food aid.
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Also:
+ Marc Gunther; Food, fuel and forests at the bottom of the pyramid
+ Yang Razali Kassim: Singapore’s growing role in Asian food security
+ World Bank: Food Price Volatility a Growing Concern
+ University of Vermont: Dispatches from the Food Movement
+ FAO: Diets must become sustainable

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