ABSTRACT
III. A question of practicalities: is such a treaty system impossible or essential? 324 IIIA. Precaution, technology, and research in an agroecological context 325 IIIB. Reorienting economics 331 IIIC. The most urgent emergency: climate change and agriculture 337 IIID. The feasibility of a duty of cooperation 343
Having concentrated in Chapter 6 on a range of substantive legal changes that would be required at the national level – using the USA as an illustration – in order to make a transition from modern extractive agriculture to agroecological husbandry, I now turn to the global arena. This is a setting in which I feel most comfortable, having spent over 30 years practicing, exploring, and explaining international law. In this chapter I draw on that experience to address this question: What initiatives can and should be
taken in international law in order to facilitate this sort of transformation of agriculture?
