Transnational Food Security by Emily Webster & Ankita Gupta & Ruth Ambros

Author:Emily Webster & Ankita Gupta & Ruth Ambros [Webster, Emily & Gupta, Ankita & Ambros, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367465643
Goodreads: 49187369
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Section 1, drawing on Saab’s work on climate-resilient GM crops, starts off with a PIL overview of GMO-led strategies to facilitate climate change adaptation and tackle food insecurity; it specifically emphasises the connection between the—alleged—need to increase agricultural production through GMOs and the need to safeguard and strengthen the intellectual property rights of biotech companies. Section 2, on the other hand, explores the dominant transnational legal narrative on GMO risk regulation, deconstructing its political and socio-economic implications and its direct connections to the elimination of non-tariff barriers to trade, transnational regulatory convergence and further trade liberalisation.3

3 For an in-depth deconstruction of the foundations and implications of the hegemonic legal narrative on GMO risks, see Leonelli (n 2). For a broader overview on transnational risk regulation, see Giulia Claudia Leonelli, ‘A Closer Look at Transnational Risk Regulation: Transnational Law As A Methodology and Critical Theory’ (on file with author).

Section 3 concludes by casting some light on the social embeddedness and artificial construction of all neo-liberal legal narratives on GMOs. Are GM crops ‘safe’ for public health, the environment and biodiversity? Are they going to feed the world and tackle food insecurity? And are they a viable strategy to achieve climate change adaptation?

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