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Food Innovation and Legal Challenges
What are the legal challenges to ensuring that food innovation promotes sustainability, protects fundamental rights, and strengthens global food security? Food Innovation and Legal Challenges offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary examination of emerging technologies, innovative production methods, and evolving governance models in the agrifood sector. Covering topics from insect-based proteins and cultured meat to Agriculture 4.0, vertical farming, biotechnology, and innovative policies addressing food waste and food poverty, the volume brings together research from scholars with expertise in constitutional, international, EU, comparative, food, and agricultural law. Combining doctrinal analysis with comparative and empirical perspectives, it delivers concrete recommendations and original insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.
Lucia Scaffardi, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Public Comparative Law at the University of Parma. She has authored monographs, book chapters and numerous articles on different research topics including privacy, DNA databases, BRICS cooperation, hate speech, Novel Foods, GMOs and biometric data.
Chiara Cerbone, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Comparative Law at the University of Parma. Her research focuses on food law and European policies against food waste, the constitutional law of emergencies in the EU, and regionalism from a comparative perspective.
Chiara Cerbone, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Comparative Law at the University of Parma. Her research focuses on food law and European policies against food waste, the constitutional law of emergencies in the EU, and regionalism from a comparative perspective.
Preface
Lucia Scaffardi and Chiara Cerbone
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Lucia Scaffardi, Laura Pineschi and Chiara Cerbone
1 Reconciling the Fluid and the Rigid: the Intersection of Law, Science, and Sustainability
Lorenza Violini
2 Food Security and Scientific Innovation in International Law
Striking a Balance between Patent Rights on Plant Resources and Human Rights Protection
Ludovica Di Lullo
3 The European Union’s Action in Promoting Agrifood Innovation: Fostering through Funding
Nicola Bergamaschi
4 Edible Insects on the EU Plate: Navigating Regulatory Challenges and Future Prospects
Maria Laura Grilli
5 Innovating Food, Shaping Trust: Insights from a Consumer Survey on EU Novel Foods and Cell-Based Meat Regulation
Giacomo Degli Antoni, Marco Faillo and Giulia Formici
6 The Internet of Farming and Agriculture 4.0: Regulatory Perspectives on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Agriculture
Maria Giulia Corazza
7 Vertical Farming: Regulatory Perspectives and Sustainability Implications
Simone Pitto
8 The Regulation of Agrifood Biotechnology: from GMO s to New Genomic Techniques
Maria Chiara Errigo
9 Technological Innovation for Food Loss and Waste Reduction: an International Law Perspective
Luca Romano
10 The Role of Innovation in the Fight against Food Waste and Food Poverty: Experimental Regulatory Solutions through the Lens of Comparative Law
Chiara Cerbone
11 The Reuse of Food Industry Scraps through the Lens of Public Law: Critical Issues and the Potential of Italian Legal Regulations
Alessia Depietri
12 Regulatory and Market-Based Incentives for Combating Food Waste: the Italian Example
Laura Costantino
Conclusions
Antonio D’Aloia
Index
Lucia Scaffardi and Chiara Cerbone
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Lucia Scaffardi, Laura Pineschi and Chiara Cerbone
1 Reconciling the Fluid and the Rigid: the Intersection of Law, Science, and Sustainability
Lorenza Violini
2 Food Security and Scientific Innovation in International Law
Striking a Balance between Patent Rights on Plant Resources and Human Rights Protection
Ludovica Di Lullo
3 The European Union’s Action in Promoting Agrifood Innovation: Fostering through Funding
Nicola Bergamaschi
4 Edible Insects on the EU Plate: Navigating Regulatory Challenges and Future Prospects
Maria Laura Grilli
5 Innovating Food, Shaping Trust: Insights from a Consumer Survey on EU Novel Foods and Cell-Based Meat Regulation
Giacomo Degli Antoni, Marco Faillo and Giulia Formici
6 The Internet of Farming and Agriculture 4.0: Regulatory Perspectives on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Agriculture
Maria Giulia Corazza
7 Vertical Farming: Regulatory Perspectives and Sustainability Implications
Simone Pitto
8 The Regulation of Agrifood Biotechnology: from GMO s to New Genomic Techniques
Maria Chiara Errigo
9 Technological Innovation for Food Loss and Waste Reduction: an International Law Perspective
Luca Romano
10 The Role of Innovation in the Fight against Food Waste and Food Poverty: Experimental Regulatory Solutions through the Lens of Comparative Law
Chiara Cerbone
11 The Reuse of Food Industry Scraps through the Lens of Public Law: Critical Issues and the Potential of Italian Legal Regulations
Alessia Depietri
12 Regulatory and Market-Based Incentives for Combating Food Waste: the Italian Example
Laura Costantino
Conclusions
Antonio D’Aloia
Index
Scientific and legal experts, professionals, policymakers, business owners, researchers, students interested in food law, food sustainability, public policy, and agrifood innovation from constitutional, comparative, international, EU, and agrifood law perspectives.