Food Security and Food Safety / La Sécurité Alimentaire

by Francis Snyder

The international community today confronts a dramatic paradox: we continue to produce more and more food, yet malnutrition, hunger and famine continue and even increase, placing millions of people in peril. At the same time, the more food is produced, the more risks of unsafe food are increasingly apparent and call to be addressed, partly through law.
We hope that this work may contribute to fill a major gap in the field: although food security constitutes a serious challenge on the world scale, one with many consequences, it has so far hardly been a subject of serious attention by scholars and researchers specialized in international law.


La communaut internationale est aujourd'hui confront e un grave paradoxe: alors que les quantit s de denr es alimentaires produites ne cessent d'augmenter, la malnutrition, la faim et la famine gagnent du terrain et menacent la vie de millions de personnes. Plus la production s'intensifie, plus les risques li s la s curit des aliments s'aggravent et exigent d' tre pris en charge (notamment) sur le plan juridique. En effet, bien que la s curit alimentaire soit un probl me lourd de cons quences l' chelle mondiale, elle n'a jusqu' pr sent re u que peu d'attention de la part des chercheurs et sp cialistes du droit international. Nous esp rons que ce travail contribuera combler cette importante lacune.

Originally published as Colloques / Workshops - Law Books of the Academy, Volume 25.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004145435
• ISBN13: 9789004145436
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"