This graduate course will examine global food challenges that affect environmental quality and human health. A wide diversity of laws and regulations apply to food: air and water quality, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, plastics, energy, carbon pricing and exchanges, emission limits, pollution trading rights, land use, tariffs, subsidies, taxes, territorial and geographic designations, and certification.
We will critically examine corporate political strategies, differing legal standards among nations, trade barriers, changing consumer preferences, mergers & acquisitions, public subsidies, vertical ownership of
value chains, advertising trends, and organic certification standards. Comparisons will be made among Swiss, EU, and US laws and regulations where possible.
You will learn to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental laws and policies that have been adopted to address a diversity of challenges the world faces.
For each of these cases, students will be challenged to consider the following:
Prof. John Wargo
Professor of Environmental Health and Politics
School of Environment & Jackson School of Global Affairs
Yale University, New Heaven
USA
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