Tscherning, Rudiger P. --- "Renewable energy for food and water security projects in dry-land countries: Towards a model legal framework for the Qatar National Food Security Programme" [2014] ELECD 262; in Talus, Kim (ed), "Research Handbook on International Energy Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) 387

Book Title: Research Handbook on International Energy Law

Editor(s): Talus, Kim

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781002193

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: Renewable energy for food and water security projects in dry-land countries: Towards a model legal framework for the Qatar National Food Security Programme

Author(s): Tscherning, Rudiger P.

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

This chapter is intended as an introduction to the intersection between energy law and food production in dry-land countries, a group of nations where 2.3 billion of the world's population live. It discusses the concepts of food and water security, in particular the interrelationship between renewable energy and national food security objectives, by way of a study of the State of Qatar's National Food Security Programme. The chapter explores renewable energy generation in the State of Qatar, and discusses the role, challenges and opportunities of renewable energy in the emirate. It places the national food security project within the context of the energy, food and human rights chain and explores and proposes key components of a model legal framework to support it.