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Food Systems
Our food system has to accommodate a wide range of policy goals: to be sustainable and just; to ensure food and nutrition security; to deliver safe and healthy food; to safeguard the wellbeing of non-human animals that are part of our diet and/or affected by our agricultural system more broadly; to become increasingly circular; to incorporate technological and digital innovation; to remain, and/or become, economically viable; and to respect the limits of our living environment. Law plays a crucial role in achieving these goals and in managing the trade-offs and synergies between them.
Key research areas
- (EU) Food law
- National Food Laws in Comparative perspective
- Food Justice / Food System Solidarity
- Intellectual property rights
- Public procurement law
- Trade law
- Agricultural law
- Consumer law
- Human health
- Animal law