Climate change has a profound impact on agriculture and on food security. At the same time agriculture contributes to climate change to a considerable extent. Fortunately there is also much to gain since the agricultural sector holds significant climate change mitigation potential through...

This chapter seeks to clarify the impact of the WTO agricultural trade regime and the related unregulated activities of transnational corporate actors on food security in developing states. It investigates the link between the structure of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, corporate...

The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in historical context, examines its key provisions, and argues that the Agreement systematically favors industrialized country agricultural producers at the expense of farmers in...

This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...

In the age of globalisation, human rights are gaining importance, but its realisation is done in different ways and in complex institutional settings. Nowadays promoting and invoking human rights are not only the interests of the state as the duty bearers, civil society organisations, or the...

Global food value chains : a conceptual guide -- Rents, power and governance in global value chains -- The financialization of land and agriculture : mechanisms, implications and responses -- Agriculture, end to end -- New forms of financing the agricultural sector in Brazil : the experience of...

This paper argues that the link between access to land and food security is ill-addressed in the context of urban and peri-urban areas of Ethiopia. It states that most cities and towns in Ethiopia are located on arable fertile farmland. Their expansion, which is inevitable as the urban...