Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Prologue; Introduction: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change; 1 Climate Change, Hunger, and International Law; 2 Perspectives on Hunger: Production versus Access; 3 So-Called Climate-Ready Seeds as a Possible Adaptation Strategy; 4 The Role of International Law in Feeding the World; 5 Narratives of Hunger and the Pyramid of Assumptions; 1 Climate Change, Narratives of Hunger, and International Law; 1.1 Hunger and Climate Change; 1.1.1 Hunger in Times of Climate Change

1.1.2 Climate-Ready Seeds to Feed the World1.1.3 Understanding Hunger and Climate-Ready Seeds through Food Regime Theory; 1.2 Narratives of Hunger; 1.2.1 International Law and Narratives; 1.2.2 The Neoliberal Narrative of Hunger; 1.2.3 The Food Sovereignty Narrative of Hunger; 1.3 International Law, Narratives of Hunger, and the Pyramid of Assumptions; 1.3.1 International Law Constructing Narratives of Hunger; 1.3.2 The Relevance of International Law to Food Regime Theory; 1.3.3 The Pyramid of Assumptions and International Law; 2 Tackling Hunger through International Climate Change Law

2.1 The International Legal Framework on Climate Change2.1.1 The UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement; 2.1.2 The Scientific Basis of Climate Change Law, from Mitigation to Adaptation; 2.2 Opening the Door to Climate-Ready Seeds; 2.2.1 International Climate Change Law and Adaptation in Agriculture: A Question of Yield; 2.2.2 Technologies and Private-Sector Engagement Are Needed to Increase Production; 2.2.2.1 Agricultural (Bio)technologies Are Needed to Increase Food Production; 2.2.2.2 An Invitation for Private-Sector Engagement in Climate Change Adaptation

2.3 International Climate Change Law and Narratives of Hunger2.3.1 International Climate Change Law Serves the Neoliberal Narrative of Hunger; 2.3.2 International Climate Change Law Reinforces the Pyramid of Assumptions; 3 The Seed Wars and Intellectual Property Rights; 3.1 Gene Giants and the Neoliberal Narrative that Supports Patent Rights on Seeds; 3.1.1 The Beginnings of Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Genetic Resources; 3.1.2 The Neoliberal Narrative: Patents on Climate-Ready Seeds Are Necessary to Feed the World in Times of Climate Change

3.2 The Food Sovereignty Narrative That There Should Be No Patents on Seeds3.2.1 Farmers' Rights and Sovereign Rights over Natural Resources as Responses to Corporate Patents; 3.2.2 The Food Sovereignty Narrative: A Corporate Patent Monopoly on Climate-Ready Seeds Will Not Feed the World in Times of Climate Change; 3.3 The Struggle over Rights in Narratives of Hunger; 3.3.1 The Struggle over Rights Leaves Little Space to Question Assumptions; 3.3.2. Debates over Patent Rights on Climate-Ready Seeds Fail to Question Fundamental Underlying Assumptions

This book explores the role that the language of international law plays in constructing understandings - or narratives - of hunger in the context of climate change. The story is told through a specific case study of genetically engineered seeds purportedly made to be 'climate-ready'. Two narratives of hunger run through the storyline: the prevailing neoliberal narrative that focuses on increasing food production and relying on technological innovations and private sector engagement, and the oppositional and aspirational food sovereignty narrative that focuses on improving access to and distribution of food and rejects technological innovations and private sector engagement as the best solutions. This book argues that the way in which voices in the neoliberal narrative use international law reinforces fundamental assumptions about hunger and climate change, and the way in which voices in the food sovereignty narrative use international law fails to question and challenge these assumptions.