Agriculture and Sustainable Development

The course will be divided in two sections: Agricultural Law and Food Law

Agricultural Law
This section will focus on the cultivation of agricultural products in the European Union and in particular how production can become more sustainable. The Course will look at the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, the authorization and use of agrochemicals, food production techniques and technologies, organic production, quality products, trade, sanitary and phytosanitary rules. A close examination of EU agricultural rules will allow for reflections on production and organizational problems the EU shares with all countries.

Food Law
This section will focus of food regulation both from an international and European point of view. The object of this course is to examine how the law regulating the production of food is managing the conflict between the need to produce enough food for a growing global population and to ensure that the production of food is sustainable.

By the end of the course the students should be able to understand both sides of the tension between environmental sustainability and the sustainability of food production. The student will get the knowledge to be able to access the right information to go beyond the lectures and into the hard decision making that is currently underway. The student should then be in a position to contribute to the debate in an informed way.