In recent years, increasing attention has been paid by national authorities in many countries, by civil society and the general public and by intergovernmental organizations to a variety of ethical questions of relevance to food and agriculture. Major recent changes in the fields of food and agriculture – including accelerating technological development, changes in the resource base, and economic and market developments – have also brought to the fore a number of ethical questions of relevance to food security and sustainable rural development. The technical questions that arise within these fields are frequently very specific to these crucial and complex fields of human endeavour, upon which world food security now and in the future depends. It is therefore clear that ethical reflection upon questions of food and agriculture must be grounded on a clear understanding and appreciation of the specificities of these sectors.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the international apex organization dealing with all aspects of food and agriculture, including forestry and fisheries. FAO has therefore taken a number of steps to approach the application of ethical perspectives to food and agriculture in a more systematic way, which I shall first describe below.
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Stannard, C. (2008). Doing Ethics in Food and Agriculture. In: Thompson, P.B. (eds) The Ethics of Intensification. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8722-6_2
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