In 2000 the European Union (EU) signed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations (UN) policy in order to reduce poverty until 2015 by half compared to the figures from 2000. The EU is fully committed to the achievement of these internationally established MDGs which aim to end poverty …

In this book and elsewhere Dutch courts are portrayed as little short of barbaric for rejecting direct applicability of the human right to food. In this contribution I want to revisit case law asking the question if the rejection of direct applicability of the right to food implies that in the Netherlands …

Zimbabwe has for a long time been one of Africa's biggest exporters of food. Nowadays, the country has got problems with feeding its own population. The inflation is extremely high and same counts for the unemployment rate. It is clear, that the "Granary of Africa" has dropped to one of Africa's poorest …

To make sustainable management and innovation attractive for companies, they need focus. In particular SME's don't have a clear view on where innovation should be aimed at in relation to sustainability. It just seems too complex. At the same time innovation suffers from the 'innovation paradox': much …

The aim of this thesis is to explain the conflict between local and national government about crisis shelters for ex-asylum seekers, asylum seekers and those in regular procedures. In this thesis laws and regulations are explained to identify the groups of asylum seekers and ex-asylum seekers which have …

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and malnutrition. On 26 November 1991 the European Union became the 161st Member of FAO, trough Resolution 7/91 which allowed Regional Economic Integration Organisations (REIOs) to accede as …