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The EU, World Trade Law and the Right to Food: Rethinking Free Trade Agreements with Developing Countries

The EU, World Trade Law and the Right to Food: Rethinking Free Trade Agreements with Developing Countries

Author: Giovanni Gruni
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509916207

Published In: August 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509943746

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In recent years the European Union has developed a comprehensive strategy to conclude free trade agreements which includes not only prominent trade partners such as Canada, the United States and Japan but also numerous developing countries.

This book looks at the existing WTO law and at the new EU free trade agreements with the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa through the lenses of the human right to adequate food. It shows how the clauses on the import and export of food included in recent free trade agreements limit the capacity of these countries to implement food security policies and to respect their human rights obligations.

This outcome appears in contrast with international human rights law and dismissive of existing human rights references in EU founding treaties as well as in treaties between the EU and developing states. Yet, the book argues against the conception in human rights literature that there is an inflexible agenda encoded in world trade law which is fundamentally conflictual with non-economic interests.

The book puts forward the idea that the European Union is perfectly placed to develop a narrative of globalisation considering other areas of public international law when negotiating trade agreements, and argues that the EU does have the competences and influence to have a role of international leadership in designing a sustainable global trading system.

Will the EU be ambitious enough? A timely contribution to the growing academic literature on the relation between world trade law and international human rights law, this book imagines a central role for the EU in reconciling these two areas of international law.

1. Introduction

I. Why a Book on Human Rights and International Trade Agreements?

II. Area of Research

III. Objective of the Book

IV. Book Outline

2. The Right to Food in International Law

I. Introduction

II. The Content of the Right to Food

III. State Duties

IV. The Right to Food and the Negotiation of Trade Agreements

V. Defragmenting International Law: Paths of Legal Dialogue between Human Rights and Trade Law and the Role of the EU

VI. Conclusions