Political Economy of the U.N. Governance on Agriculture and Food and the Codes of Conduct of Multinational Agribusinesses

由于国际社会“一切照旧”的方针未能解决世界粮食安全挑战，人们现在日益认识到，“食物权”的论述和方针可以成为一种有效的法律的和规范性工具和框架，阐明国家、国际经济机构和跨国公司在权利持有人的困境方面的国际人权义务。然而，为了确保和实现人权方法的适用性，我们还需要了解对农业食品系统拥有巨大权力的跨国农业企业监管制度的政治经济学。

As the business-as-usual approach of the international community has failed to address the world food security challenges, it is now increasingly acknowledged that “the right to food” discourse and approach can be an effective legal and normative tool and framework to shed light on the international human rights obligations of states, international economic institutions and multinational corporations in relation tothe rights holders’ predicament. In order to ensure and fulfill the applicability of the human-rights approach, however, we further need to understand the political economy of the regulatory regime of multinational agribusinesses that wield massive power on the agri-food system.