This book offers a new and differentiated overview of Agri-Food Law against the background of
national and global integration of markets and compares for the first time important aspects
of the agricultural environmental and food law of China and Germany the European Union. In
addition to the basics it discusses a wide range of issues such as the respective legal
regulatory structures for food security food safety geographical indications of origin
climate protection fertilizers plant protection products genetic engineering water
protection soil protection land resources and organic farming. In addition it addresses key
environmental impacts and developments in order to create integrated value chains. The
increasing fusion of upstream and downstream areas is becoming apparent from primary production
to the refinement and trade up level and even to consumption. Agri-Food Law is now
productively taking these important developments into account with regard to the aforementioned
countries.
