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"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "Agricultural Law from a Global Perspective: An Introduction" -- "1 Introduction" -- "2 What Is Agricultural Law?" -- "2.1 Identifying the Meaning of Agricultural Law Through the Definition of Agriculture" -- "2.2 A Second Pattern: Characterizing Agricultural Law in Terms of Its Regulatory Schemes" -- "2.3 Agricultural Law as an Autonomous Branch of Law" -- "3 From ``Food and Fiber Production´´ to a Broader Content" -- "4 The Shape of Current Agricultural Law" -- "References" -- "Part I: Environmental Protection and Food Security at the Cross-Roads with Agricultural Law" -- "Sustainable Agricultural Production, Environmental Sustainability and Food Security: How to Frame the Legal Intervention" -- "1 Introduction" -- "2 The Structure of the Part" -- "References" -- "The Ecological and Perpetual Dimensions of European Food Security: The Case for Sustainable Agriculture" -- "1 Introduction" -- "2 Food Security" -- "2.1 International Definitions" -- "2.2 Food Security Under the CAP: Objectives and Outcomes" -- "2.3 The Ecological Effects of Early Approaches to Food Security" -- "3 Sustainable Agriculture: A Cornerstone of the CAP or Just Another Brick in the Wall" -- "3.1 The Influence of the Sustainable Development Paradigm" -- "3.2 The Successive `Greening´ of the CAP" -- "3.3 The 2013 Reforms: Framing the Objective of Sustainable Agriculture Towards 2020 and Beyond" -- "4 Recognising the Ecological and Perpetual Dimensions of Food Security: The Urgent Need to Reconsider Current Approaches to Fo..." -- "4.1 The Looming Challenges to Food Security and the (in)Adequacies of Anthropocentric Models of Environmental Protection" -- "4.2 Sustainable Agriculture: (re)Discovering the Link Between Food Security and the Ecological Resource Base

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The Peasants' Declaration: state obligations and justiciability -- Part I Rights holders -- 2 Defining peasants in the UNDROP -- 3 Indigenous peoples and traditional local communities in the UNDROP: synergies and challenges -- 4 No food sovereignty without feminism? Negotiating gender equality in the UNDROP -- 5 Shedding a light on the human rights of small-scale fishers: complementarities and contrasts between the UNDROP and the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines -- Part II Natural resources access and control -- 6 The right to land -- 7 The rights to water and sanitation and the UNDROP: the implementation challenges of a comprehensive approach -- 8 The right to seeds: using the commons as a sustainable governance scheme to implement peasants' rights? -- 9 The rights to food and food sovereignty in the UNDROP -- Part III Food and agriculture governance -- 10 Peasants' rights and food systems governance -- 11 The UNDROP and climate change: squaring the circle? -- 12 Farming models and peasants' rights -- 13 The UNDROP, biocultural rights, and sustainability standards for agri-food systems -- Part IV The declaration on the ground -- 14 Land tenure: assessing Kenya's legal approach and the practice towards landlessness amongst rural smallholder farmers including women's rights -- 15 Reimagining agrobiodiversity conservation and agricultural innovation from the grassroots up: the case of the Peliti seed network in Greece -- 16 The rights of small-scale fisherwomen in the EU: the potential impact of the UNDROP -- 17 The UNDROP and the case law of the Inter-American Human Rights System: potential impacts and insights from Hacienda Brasil Verde case -- 18 Land acquisition and public interest litigation in India.

This is the first book to address and review The Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018. Food security and sustainable agri-food systems, responsible governance of natural resources, and human rights are among the key themes of the new millennium. The Declaration is the first internationally negotiated instrument bridging these issues, calling for a radical paradigm change in the agricultural sector while giving voice to peasants and rural workers, recognized as the drivers of more equitable and resilient food systems. The book unfolds the impact of the Declaration in the wider realm of law and policymaking, especially concerning the new human rights standards related to access and control of natural resources and the governance of food systems. Chapters touch on a broad array of topics, including women's rights, the role of and impact on indigenous peoples, food sovereignty, climate change, land tenure and agrobiodiversity. Voices from outstanding scholars and practitioners are gathered together to inform and trigger a further debate on the negotiation process, the innovative and potentially disruptive contents, the relations with other fields of law, and the practical scope of the Declaration. The volume concludes with a collection of case studies which provide concrete examples to help us understand the potential impacts of the Declaration at regional, national and local levels. This book is the first comprehensive tool to navigate the Declaration and is designed for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of food and agriculture law, peasant, agrarian and rural studies, human rights and environmental law, and international development and cooperation.