The WTO and the human rights systems have been created to pursue the same global objective: advancing human welfare. However, while the WTO scheme, including the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), is concerned with aggregated improvements in global welfare, human rights focus on the individual and...

At the 2009 World Summit on Food Security, states concluded that increasing agricultural productivity is the main means to meet the growing demand for food. They nominated agricultural biotechnology as a way of achieving this goal. A few months later, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

At the November 2009 World Summit on Food Security, states concluded that increasing agricultural productivity is the main means to meet the growing demand for food. They nominated agricultural biotechnology as a way of achieving this goal. A few months later, the Food and Agriculture...

The International Law Commission (ILC) has embarked upon a process of developing draft articles for a convention on transboundary groundwaters. The Special Rapporteur for the topic Shared Natural Resources, Chusei Yamada, has already presented two reports dealing with groundwater. This paper...

The spread of agricultural biotechnologies, and the conditions conducive to their development, have economic, social and environmental implications. This paper explores these implications for the realization of the right to food emphasizing genetic engineering as the most controversial...