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...

"Food sovereignty" expresses a complex concept, the key elements of which are attributable to a unitary matrix of political, social and economic order. It is, in other words, a political plan which is alternative to the neoliberal model, which on a global level dominates the agro-food sector....

Though the practice of investing in foreign farmland is not a new phenomenon, the concurrence of recent global crises became catalysts for a modern, unprecedented rush on agricultural land around the world. Demands for food and energy, volatile commodity prices, land and water shortages, and...