02534 a2200445 4500 1315446510 20250317111616.0 250312042016GB 54 eng 9781315446516 Taylor & Francis GBP 44.99 BB 01 eng LNKJ thema KNA thema TVB thema PST thema RNF thema TDCT thema LAF thema LNT thema LB thema LNKJ bic KNAC bic TVB bic PST bic RNF bic TDCT bic LAF bic LNT bic LB bic LAW102000 bisac NAT010000 bisac 343.076 bisac John W. Head International Law and Agroecological Husbandry Building legal foundations for a new agriculture 1 Oxford Routledge 20161125 446 p Remarkable advances are being made in life science and agricultural research to reform the methods of food production, particularly with regard to staple grain and legume crops, in ways that will better reflect ecological realities. However, advances in science may be insufficient to ensure that these possibilities for agricultural reform are realized in practice and in a sustainable way. This book shows how these can only be achieved through changes in legal norms and institutions at the global level. Interdisciplinary in character, the book draws from a range of issues involving agricultural innovation, international legal history and principles, treaty commitments, global institutions, and environmental challenges, such as climate change, to propose broad legal changes for transforming global agriculture. It first shows how modern extractive agriculture is unsustainable on economic, environmental, and social grounds. It then examines the potential for natural-systems agriculture (especially perennial-polyculture systems) for overcoming the deficiencies of modern extractive agriculture, especially to offset climate change. Finally it analyses closely the legal innovations that can be adopted at national and international levels to facilitate a transition from modern extractive agriculture to a system based more on ecological principles. In particular the author argues for the creation of a Global Convention on Agroecology. 5400 5400