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Food Justice: An Environmental Justice Critique of the Global Food System
International Environmental Law and the Global South (2015)
  • Carmen G Gonzalez
Abstract
Environmental justice is an important framework for understanding the North–South divide in many areas of international law and policy, including energy, climate, hazardous wastes, and food. An environmental justice analysis makes visible the ways in which the global North benefits from unsustainable economic activity while imposing the environmental consequences on the global South and on the planet's most vulnerable human beings, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and the poor. This chapter applies an environmental justice analysis to the global food system, analyzes the underlying causes of the inequities in food production and consumption, and outlines several strategies to create a more equitable and sustainable approach to global food governance.
Keywords
  • environmental justice,
  • food justice,
  • food sovereignty,
  • North-South divide,
  • food security,
  • food governance,
  • global food system
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2015
Editor
Shawkat Alam, Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez, Jona Razzaque
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781107055698
Citation Information
Carmen G Gonzalez. "Food Justice: An Environmental Justice Critique of the Global Food System" New YorkInternational Environmental Law and the Global South (2015) p. 401 - 434
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/carmen_gonzalez/41/