The European agricultural sectors and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) face the triple challenge of productivity increase to meet increasing demands for food, fibre and energy, pressing public policy issues regarding public health and nutrition and the public good components of agricultural...

Nachhaltigkeitsfragen in der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten an Bedeutung gewonnen. Neben vielfältigen Umweltproblemen rücken für agrarwirtschaftliche Lieferketten immer stärker auch Menschenrechtsprobleme in den Fokus der Diskussion. Unternehmen stehen...

Ernährungsarmut wird als Problem in Deutschland weitgehend vernachlässigt. Von materieller Ernährungsarmut betroffen sind Menschen, denen es aufgrund fehlender finanzieller Mittel nicht möglich ist, sich gesundheitsfördernd zu ernähren. Etwa 3,5 % der Bevölkerung (rund drei Millionen...

Context: Resilience is the ability to deal with shocks and stresses, including the unknown and previously unimaginable, such as the Covid-19 crisis. Objective: This paper assesses (i) how different farming systems were exposed to the crisis, (ii) which resilience capacities were revealed and...

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the regulations on e-commerce protection rules in China and the European Union. It starts by giving a general overview of different approaches towards consumer protection in e-commerce. This article then scrutinizes the current legal system in...

Why could law and economics theory (hereinafter L&E) develop to become the most prominent theory in US legal scholarship, while still playing only a minor role in Europe? As this piece is also meant as a gloss, as “a propagan-dist tracet”, I herein make use of my academic freedom to write...

Behavioural forms of regulation, e.g. nudging and debiasing, increasingly take centre stage in regulatory agendas and are making their way into consumer law. In order to warrant for an effective implementation from a legal point of view, findings from behavioural sciences need to confirm with...