Soil Protection and the Right to Food for a Better Common Future

Issue title: Our Earth Matters: Pathways to a Better Common Environmental Future – Part 2

Guest editors: Bharat H. Desai

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ruppel, Oliver C.^{; *}

Affiliations: Professor of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Director, Development and Rule of Law Programme (DROP), Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Co-Director, Research Center for Climate Law (ClimLaw), University of Graz, Austria

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: ruppel@sun.ac.za.

Abstract: This article examines –from an international law perspective –the interface between soil protection, land degradation neutrality, food security, climate governance and trade in agriculture. Although these different spheres are most often viewed in isolation, an attempt is made to analyse them more holistically with the aim of identifying the connectedness for the purpose of finding some strategies for a better common future.

Keywords: Soil protection, land degradation neutrality, food security, climate governance, mitigation, supply chain, trade in agriculture, world trade law

DOI: 10.3233/EPL-219007

Journal: Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 51, no. 1-2, pp. 57-73, 2021