Fisheries and aquaculture are important parts of global food systems. The sector employs millions of people in developing countries and feeds billions world-wide. Over-exploitation and other harmful practices jeopardise the sector's sustainability and its actual growth potential. Our author...

Regional food supply, organic farming, and changing food consumption are three major strategies to reduce the environmental impacts of the agricultural sector. In the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (population: 11 million), multiple policy and economic incentives drive the uptake of...

Starting from a brief outline of the present food situation in the developing countries and the importance of food aid for the low income, food deficit countries the study: (1) describes the methods of food aid and food security progammes as they have developed over time in GFR bilateral aid; (2)...

The milk price guarantee quota regulations that came into force in the GFR in April 1984 to implement the EC regulation at a national level, and whose latest amendment was in July 1987, has given rise to numerous legal problems, not all of which have been resolved by the courts. The article seeks...

The section of the GFR milk quota regulations discussed is that making special quota allowance for those who had invested in new dairy farm buildings which had not yet come into use at the beginning of the reference period. Originally there was a cut off herd size of 80 cows for which adjustment...

The study assesses the possibilities of providing an adequate minimum diet with the present farm production structure either for the EC (9) or the GFR, in the event of a crisis that prevented all imports for a one year or a three year period. The results show that it would be possible to provide a...

A selection of health laws and regulations is presented, including the following: Ordinance of 2 Jan. 1975, on exemptions from the withdrawal period required under the second sentence of sub-section 2 of section 15 of the Foodstuffs and Consumer Goods Law (details are given of conditions under...

A comparison is provided of the design and operation of regulatory institutions in the UK, USA, France and the GFR in the field of food additives. Significant similarities and differences are highlighted and particular attention is paid to the ways in which the institutions cope with scientific...

A study in five European countries on the market for nutritionally modified foods, particularly new balanced products, is detailed. These are defined, and the major themes of reduction, substitutes, additions and 'free from' are considered. The impact of trends on consumers, by country and region,...