Preface

ix

List of Abbreviations

x

Notes on Contributors

xv

Introduction / F. Seatzu

1

pt. 1

Mapping the Field

1.

Practice of Land Grabbing and Its Compatibility with the Exercise of Territorial Sovereignty / Federica Violi

17

2.

Resources Grabbing and Human Rights: Building a Triangular Relationship Between States, Indigenous Peoples and Corporations / Nadia Bernaz

38

pt. 2

Human Rights Context

3.

Who is Entitled to Cultivate the Land? Sovereignty, Land Resources and Foreign Investments in Agriculture in International Law / Jochen von Bernstorff

55

4.

Land Grabbing and International Human Rights: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Elisa Ruozzi

75

5.

Water Grabbing and Water Rights: Indigenous `Sovereignty' v. State Sovereignty? / Giada Lepore

93

6.

Right to Water and Access to Water Resources in the European Development Policy / Marco Borraccetti

116

pt. 3

Environmental Context

7.

Tackling the Grabbing of Genetic Resources and of Associated Traditional Knowledge through the Nagoya Protocol / Francesca Romanin Jacur

139

8.

Natural Resource Grabbing: The Case of Tropical Forests and REDD+ / Annalisa Savaresi

159

9.

International Land Investments or the Environment Put up for Auction: The Case of the Niger Basin / Komlan Sangbana

181

10.

European Integration and the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive: A Suitable Framework for the Implementation of the Sustainability Criteria for Biofuels Production in Third-States? / Solenne Avet

199

pt. 4

Investment Context

11.

Integrating Human Rights into the Extractive Industries: How Investment Contracts Can Achieve Protection / Tara Van Ho

225

12.

Role of International Environmental Principles in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Precautionary and Polluter Pays Principles and Partial Compensation / Tomoko Ishikawa

245

13.

Exploration and Extraction of Natural Resources: Miga's Role in the Promotion of Responsible Investments in Developing Countries / Inesa Stolper

275

14.

On the World Bank's Efforts in Defence of the Human Right to Land / Francesco Seatzu

294

pt. 5

WTO Context

15.

WTO Members' Right to Protect Animals in International Trade: A TBT Perspective / Angelica Bonfanti

317

16.

Water Resources' Exploitation and Trade Flows: The Impact of International Trade Law / Julinda Beqiraj

338

17.

Energy Export Restrictions in the WTO between Resource Nationalism and Sustainable Development / Ilaria Espa

361

pt. 6

Conflicts and Crimes

18.

On the Financing of Civil Wars through Natural Resources: Is There a Duty of Vigilance for Third States on the Activities of Trans-National Corporations? / Marco Pertile

383

19.

Breaking the `Resource Curse': Prosecuting Pillage of Natural Resources / Garima Tiwari

407

20.

Concluding Observations / F. Seatzu

427

Bibliography

435

Index

459