Food Innovation and Legal Challenges - (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book examines the legal challenges surrounding food innovation, analysing laws, policies, and governance models that link advances in the agrifood sector with sustainability goals, the protection of fundamental rights, and the pursuit of global food security from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Book Synopsis

What are the legal challenges to ensuring that food innovation promotes sustainability, protects fundamental rights, and strengthens global food security? Food Innovation and Legal Challenges offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary examination of emerging technologies, innovative production methods, and evolving governance models in the agrifood sector. Covering topics from insect-based proteins and cultured meat to Agriculture 4.0, vertical farming, biotechnology, and innovative policies addressing food waste and food poverty, the volume brings together research from scholars with expertise in constitutional, international, EU, comparative, food, and agricultural law. Combining doctrinal analysis with comparative and empirical perspectives, it delivers concrete recommendations and original insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.

About the Author

Lucia Scaffardi, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Public Comparative Law at the University of Parma. She has authored monographs, book chapters and numerous articles on different research topics including privacy, DNA databases, BRICS cooperation, hate speech, Novel Foods, GMOs and biometric data.

Chiara Cerbone, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Comparative Law at the University of Parma. Her research focuses on food law and European policies against food waste, the constitutional law of emergencies in the EU, and regionalism from a comparative perspective.