TY - BOOK ID - 85296890 TI - Narratives of hunger in international law : feeding the world in times of climate change PY - 2019 SN - 1108670903 1108652174 1108473377 110857999X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Right to food. KW - Hunger. KW - Law KW - Climatic changes. KW - Human rights. KW - Language, Legal KW - Legal language KW - Legal style KW - Style, Legal KW - Bill drafting KW - Appetite KW - Fasting KW - Starvation KW - Food, Right to KW - Human rights KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change KW - Climate change science KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic changes KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Language. KW - Law and legislation KW - Environmental aspects KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85296890 AB - This book explores the role that the language of international law plays in constructing understandings - or narratives - of hunger in the context of climate change. The story is told through a specific case study of genetically engineered seeds purportedly made to be 'climate-ready'. Two narratives of hunger run through the storyline: the prevailing neoliberal narrative that focuses on increasing food production and relying on technological innovations and private sector engagement, and the oppositional and aspirational food sovereignty narrative that focuses on improving access to and distribution of food and rejects technological innovations and private sector engagement as the best solutions. This book argues that the way in which voices in the neoliberal narrative use international law reinforces fundamental assumptions about hunger and climate change, and the way in which voices in the food sovereignty narrative use international law fails to question and challenge these assumptions. ER -