The article discusses a symposium that addressed the impact of the Ukrainian war on markets and the urgency of tackling climate change's effect on food supply. It emphasizes the need for a balance between animal and plant-based foods for global food security, considering Sustainable Development...

It is pointed out that all types of development aid (capital, technical or food), can have damaging effects as well as benefits and that food aid has to be treated as a development resource. Food aid (over $3000 million per year) accounts for about 7%-10% of official development aid and about...

The Right to Food, as enshrined in international law, has found its way into national constitutions and practices. What matters from a national and international legal point of view is how this policy objective is implemented. In Switzerland, a number of policies and their instruments are relevant...

Access to enough nutritionally adequate food is a basic need shared by all human beings. In 1949, the right to adequate food was declared a basic human right. It was only during the Rome World Food Summit in 1996 that the discussion on the right to food was revitalized, and it took another eight...

Current legal and social developments in Europe are leading to an uncertain future for the provision of kosher meat for Austrian Jews. We analyse parliamentary resolutions and aspirations and decisions of the European Court of Justice to provide the background to current legal events in the...

This article discusses the "Farm to Fork" (F2F) Strategy presented by the European Commission in 2020 as part of the European Green Deal. The F2F Strategy aims to create a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system. It outlines 27 measures for transitioning towards a sustainable food...

A current study confirms that German supermarkets need to take action when it comes to ecological sustainability. At the same time, it shows why supermarkets are important partners if our food system is to be changed in the direction of sustainability.

How resilient is our food supply? Shelves that were temporarily empty during the COVID-19 crisis showed that the answer to this question is more urgent than ever. A guaranteed supply of people with food that is harmless to health and of high quality is one of the essential system-relevant tasks,...