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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477241903321

Autore

Tsioumani Elsa

Titolo

Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture : Reinventing Agrarian Justice / / Elsa Tsioumani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 pages)

Collana

Earthscan studies in natural resource management

Disciplina

343.076

Soggetti

Agricultural laws and legislation

Agriculture and state

Environmental law, International

Sustainable agriculture - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fair and equitable benefit : sharing in agricultural research and development -- Fair and equitable benefit : sharing in land governance for sustainable agriculture -- Moving beyond fair and equitable benefit : sharing -- Exploring grassroots initiatives from the seed to the landscape.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture. Developed in the 1990s, the concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing has been deployed in an ever-wider variety of international instruments, including those on biodiversity, climate change, and human rights. A lack of clarity persists however on what fair and equitable benefit-sharing requires and entails, and whether its implementation supports or eventually undermines equity and justice. This book examines these questions in the area of land, food and agriculture, addressing, for the first time, several instances of the agricultural production chain, including research and development, land governance and land use, and access to markets. It identifies challenges regarding implementation of the concept as enshrined in environmental treaties and soft-law instruments, with a focus on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and



Agriculture, the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. It investigates its role, enabling conditions and limitations, in a contradictory policy context involving environmental, food security and human rights objectives but also a growing web of multilateral and bilateral trade and investment agreements. Linking international law research with a socio-legal analysis, the book addresses four grassroots examples, which offer ideas for institutional and legal innovation from the local to the global level. This interdisciplinary title will be of great interest to students and scholars of international environmental law, agriculture, land law, development studies and international governance, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in these fields"--