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Feb 9, 2024 · Effective governance is essential to transform food systems and achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Different political ideologies and paradigms inhibit or drive social change movements. This study examined how food systems governance has been described. Thereafter, we reviewed graphic frameworks and models to develop a typology for civil society actors to ...
food systems governance. Human rights constitute a set of universally applicable standards and concrete obligations owned primarily by States to guide policymakers to support justice and the rule of law. Establishing “good governance” for food systems transformation requires heightened attention to the right to food. The
Jul 26, 2022 · This article discusses governance frameworks such as alternative food networks, bioregions and foodsheds, rural-urban linkages, short food supply chains, and city-region food systems; and draws insights from real-life governance initiatives to demonstrate the practical considerations that inform such initiatives.
Oct 13, 2021 · The UN Food Systems Summit was an ambitious and hotly contested event that brought competing approaches to global food governance into relief. In this article, we unpack the rival visions that circulate around how food systems should be governed, focusing on two issues that we feel are at the heart of these divergences: authority and legitimacy. We illustrate how both corporate-philanthropic ...
- Matthew C. Canfield, Jessica Duncan, Priscilla Claeys
- 2021
- 1 Historical Background and Evolution of The GATT/WTO Regulation of Food
- 2 Food Measures Under The Gatt
- 3 The WTO Food Regime: The Sps Agreement and Its Main Obligations
- The Limits of The WTO Scientific Discipline
- The Sps Notification System and Its Current Limits
GATT’s primary purpose was to promote trade in goods by reducing tariffs and eliminating quantitative restrictions. Its main focus has thus for a long-time been on the so-called border measures (as opposed to the “within the border measures” or domestic measures) (Bhagwati and Hudec 1996). Its main organizing principle, aimed at tackling these obst...
The original GATT agreement of 1947—like the 1994 GATT agreement—left countries free to establish whatever food safety regulations they wished. The only constraints on the exercise of their legislative autonomy were set by Article III:4,Footnote 26 which required that these regulations had to be applied in a non-discriminatory way on imported and d...
The SPS Agreement, which forms part of the 1994 World Trade Agreement,Footnote 38 applies to all measures adopted by WTO Members to protect human, animal or plant life or health “which, directly or indirectly, may affect international trade”.Footnote 39 Notably, SPS measures—as defined in Annex A of the Agreement—are those aimed at protecting anima...
The increased reliance on science as a benchmark against which to check the legality of regulatory action stems from the belief that, “by bringing constraints on valid lines of argument being based on data and methods used to estimate risk” (Crawford-Brown et al. 2004:465), science ensures that a given SPS measure addresses a real, objectively esta...
The notification system, by mandating WTO members to notify their SPS measure before adoption, aims at injecting transparency into the adoption of SPS measures across WTO members. This transparency requirement is operationalized by Annex B of the SPS Agreement that provides that WTO Members promptly publish all SPS measures that they adopt and prov...
- Alberto Alemanno
- alemanno@hec.fr
- 2015
working mechanisms and to develop the overall governance framework in which we operate. Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle Executive Director European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Parma, March 2008 Acknowledgements This book and the General Framework for the Precautionary and Inclusive Governance of Food Safety that it presents and critically discusses have grown out of research undertaken within one ...
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May 14, 2024 · Food safety is the concept of “assurance that food will not cause adverse effects on the health of the consumer when prepared and/or consumed in accordance with its intended use” (ISO, 2018). Food safety measures implemented throughout the food supply chain play an essential role in protecting consumer health and food quality.
