Enriching Environmental Law and Improving Food Security Through an Innovative Interpretation of Human and Natural Rights

Can acknowledging human rights - in particular, the right to food and the right to a healthy environment alongside granting legal personality and rights to natural entities like landscape and ecosystem - bring about a viable solution to food insecurity and its related concerns? This chapter investigates the legal and cultural framework necessary for an effective acknowledgement and enforcement of both human and natural rights. It also examines the legal instruments and policies that can facilitate their implementation. In the past, the view was that climate change is primarily an environmental concern. While this is true, to some degree, as the climate crisis encompasses global-scale environmental issues such as global warming, biodiversity loss, desertification, and rising oceans, it is inaccurate to confine it within environmentalism alone. This paper looks broadly at all challenges and the interconnected elements present in the challenges.