Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio

• Professor
• Profesora Titular de Universidad (acreditada CU) at University of the Basque Country

Please, find below the link to the publication: https://ipagri.uib.eu/files/2023/04/ipagri.pdf Thank you very much.

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This article addresses the scenarios that may be encountered by the first application for pre-market approval of a CRISPR-edited plant in the EU. Two alternative scenarios are considered in the short and medium term. One of these possible EU futures depends on the final drafting and approval of EU legislation on certain New Genomic Techniques, whic...

This article addresses the scenarios that may be encountered by the first application for pre-market approval of a CRISPR-edited plant in the EU. Two alternative scenarios are considered in the short and medium term. One of these possible EU futures depends on the final drafting and approval of EU legislation on certain New Genomic Techniques, whic...

For various reasons, which are explained in this chapter, Basque society is a privileged vantage point (atalaia in Basque) from which it is possible to approach the emerging forms and scales of contemporary democracy. From this vantage point, we contemplate the dangers and inadequacies of Western democracies, and the ways in which, from the local t...

At first sight, proposing an ethical-critical analysis of food charity might seem somewhat surprising. If we consider all the cultures of the world, one by one, it is highly likely that feeding the hungry will, almost unanimously, be seen as a positive gesture towards another person. Indeed, in many societies, there are occasions when there it is c...

As we stated in the first chapter, undertaking a critical ethical analysis of charitable food may come as a surprise to some. In practically all cultures throughout the world, feeding the hungry tends to be seen as a positive gesture towards others; an expression of generosity, maybe even a moral duty. Why then is it necessary to consider the ethic...

Given the EU’s current campaign to reduce food waste, the redistribution of unsaleable food via food charities is reaching a level that was unknown barely a decade ago. While acknowledging that gestures of compassion and solidarity are a feature of every society, this chapter looks at food redistribution from the perspective of human rights. The hu...

La convivencia entre altas tasas de despilfarro alimentario y una creciente bolsa de personas en situación de pobreza alimentaria es una de las paradojas del sistema alimentario contemporáneo. Los puentes alimentarios son estrategias que, impulsadas por distintos actores, persiguen que alimentos aptos para el consumo que han quedado fuera del circu...

https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2_65 The status that charitable food aid resources have attained and the loss of responsibility by the Welfare State for the right to food undermines the latter doubly. In a first step, retrenchment and austerity reduce its operational space, which weakens it in its functions in th...

Recurriendo a García Pelayo, son bastantes los elementos de los actuales sistemas democráticos en los que cabría hallar, sobre todo en lo formal, una cierta homogeneidad armónica con sus precedentes históricos o referentes de Derecho comparado. De todos ellos, sin embargo, parece que la inviolabilidad regia es uno de los pocos —sino el único— de lo...

This chapter forms the land case study for Spain. As with all empirical chapters it explores several key themes in relation to food charity in Spain: • the history of food charity in the national context and the relationship between the welfare state and charities; • the nature of and drivers behind contemporary food charity provision; • key change...

As the demand for food banks and other emergency food charities continues to rise across the continent, this is the first systematic Europe-wide study of the roots and consequences of this urgent phenomenon. Leading researchers provide case studies from the UK, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, each considering the histo...

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive study of the rise of food charity across Europe. Bringing together leading researchers across the continent, this collection explores the driving forces behind this phenomenon and its implications into the future, from a social policy perspective. The book incorporates cases studies from Finla...

Claims for secession have posed an exceptional challenge to different ‘federal’ systems; in other words, to political systems that are articulated upon the basis of extensive autonomy of the territories in which these kinds of claims have taken shape. Recently there have been very significant claims of this nature. This is the case of Spain. Specia...

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts. The debate has rarely been more important than it is right now, especially in light of recent events in Catalonia, Scotland,...

El Reino Unido de la Gran Bretaña comparte Monarca con otros quince Reinos de la Mancomunidad de Naciones (Commonwealth of Nations), en un fenómeno que es descrito como «dieciséis Coronas separadas, aunque en unión personal». Desde al menos los años 70 se había venido apuntando la necesidad de adaptar las normas de sucesión a los principios de igua...

Según la FAO, hasta un tercio de todos los alimentos se estropea o desperdicia antes de ser consumido por las personas. Estas pérdidas tienen importantes consecuencias económicas y medio ambientales, e invitan también a la reflexión crítica desde la perspectiva ética, porque entrado el siglo XXI se siguen contando por centenares de millones las per...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland shares a Monarch with fifteen other Realms of the Commonwealth of Nations, in a phenomenon that is described as «sixteenth separated Crowns in personal union». Since the 1970s or earlier reference had been made to the need to adapt the laws of succession to the principles of gender equality a...

SINOPSIS En el reconocimiento de la identidad de las personas se han extendido en la última década tecnologías cuyo funcionamiento se basa en la captación de rasgos singularizantes del cuerpo humano (huellas dactilares, iris, geometría facial). Esta obra aborda su funcionamiento y fiabilidad, así como su legitimidad y aceptabilidad desde la perspe...

Aware of the significant potential of nascent biotechnologies, the European Economic Community (the predecessor to the European Union) was one of the first regions in the world to develop a regulatory framework for them. Back in the 1980s, the objective of Community member countries was to strengthen the standards of consensus and collaboration, an...

The recent economic crisis has dramatically increased the number of people who live close to or below the poverty level in our cities. Thus, in recent years, a number of groups of citizens have promoted diverse initiatives to provide food to people at socio-economic risk. Among the best known and more widely distributed initiatives are food banks a...

Food poverty is one of the social scourges which has most taken hold in recent years. In the so-called Global North (or developed world), to which the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (CAPV in Spanish) belongs, a growing number of people have no physical and economic access to healthy, safe food, appropriate for their nutritional needs. T...

Critical analyses of current food systems underline the need to respond to important challenges in questions of nutritional health, environmental sustainability, socio-economic development and protection of the cultural wealth. A wide range of perspectives and methodologies were used to carry out those analyses yielding a significant variety of pro...

Food insecurity and hunger are growing problems present also in the wealthy developed world. Financial crisis, market instability and increasing food prices contribute to aggravate the problem. According to Caritas-Europe, 79 million people are food insecure in the EU. That happens while the current food wastage in EU27 is 179 kg per capita (89 mil...

In recent years the concern about food waste has grown in the EU. In accordance with official data, almost half of the world’s food is thrown away. It has been said that if nothing is done, food waste in the EU is expected to rise to about 126 million tons by 2020. The European policy target is to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030 and institutions a...

In October 2003, the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia passed a law authorising the use of human embryos that were biologically viable in biomedical research. At that time, the use of such embryos was banned for other researchers in Spain. The national government lodged an appeal of unconstitutionality, claiming, among other thing...

The goal of Safety in the use of Biotechnology (BT) became a priority on the international Agenda since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The challenges we are to face at the time of setting up the regulatory framework for modern BT are many and varied. In addition to the risks, governing n...

Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads. After over thirty years of development, the consensus regarding its appropriateness has started to crumble. The transformation project embodied by the reform of Statute of Catalonia (2006) has failed to achieve its most significant demands. Although the concept of Spain as a Federation is disp...

Science and technology students understand well the scientific approaches behind GM crops and the arguments for using them in cultivation and food applications. Even the basics of the authorization processes are quite understandable for them. But, how can we introduce them to the controversial issues regarding the AgroFood Biotechnologies? Why and...

Prominent amongst the factors which in recent decades have brought about profound changes in our food systems is the deregulation of food markets. This, in turn, exists within a context of the growing integration of economies and societies at a world level. Often cited in defence of globalisation is its positive impact upon productivity and global...

Genetically modified crops - Genetically modified organisms - GM food -

Back in the early eighties, community institutions paid attention to the potential of new biotechnology progresses in their applications on non-human organisms and persistently expressed, like other OCDE countries, the Union's wish to pay a leading role in the development of such technology, as a key element to maintain its privileged position in t...

En el constitucionalismo de la segunda posguerra, preocupado por consagrar el Estado como promotor de la justicia social y economica, el movimiento de defensa de los consumidores se abrio paso hasta el proceso de construccion del mercado comun. Aunque no reflejada en los textos constitutivos, al menos desde los anos 70 se constata una clara preocup...

En las últimas décadas, el alarmante deterioro del medio ambiente se ha visto, paradójicamente, acompañado por un amplío despliegue de mecanismos políticos y jurídicos en su defensa. En el contexto de un Estado marcadamente intervencionista, el empleo de la potestad sancionadora (ius puniendi) en materia ambiental ha sido símbolo de la creciente im...

ResumenIdioma Los alimentos transgénicos y la mayoría de las aportaciones de la biotecnología moderna son fruto de los avances más importantes de las últimas décadas, y se estima que permitirán hacer frente a los retos alimenticios del Tercer milenio. En consecuencia, resulta comprensible toda la labor política y jurídica desarrollada durante estos...

During the last decade, the european institutions have done a great effort in order to introduce the precautionary principle, applicable to the management of serious and uncertain risks. Under the protection of the precautionary principle, european authorities and authorities of the member states have partially modified, suspended or revoked author...