Duration: Six Months
Language medium: English
Target group:
Lawyer including law student, personnel in food industries and relevant government body like agriculture minister employee and agriculture and food business group including farmers who comply the minimum requirement could attend
Admission requirements:
Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree (LLB or BProc and/or any other appropriate degree). Applicants who do not have a Bachelor's degree may apply for admission on the basis of relevant practical experience or prior learning
Registration periods:
Jan and June
Course leader details:
Dr TD Gebrehiwot
LLB,LLM,LLD
South African Research Chair in Law Society and Technology, Mercantile Law,
Food & Agricultural law (LLD), Trade and Investment law (LLM) and Intellectual Property law.
4-117, Cas Van Vuuren, Peller Street, Muckleneuk Ridge, Pretoria
Tell 012 429 4488, Fax 27 866469655
Email egebretd@unisa.ac.za
Programme administrator:
Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp
Purpose statement:
To equip students with the legal and practical knowledge and skills relating to agriculture and food law
The primary purpose of the programme is to provide graduate practitioners in the field of agriculture and food law with the knowledge, specific skills and practical competencies relating to the vital legal principles and common practices applied to agriculture and food in the field for continued personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and valuable contributions to society, and to bring them up to date with South African and International developments of the agriculture and food law.
A second purpose of the programme is to provide South Africa and the global community with professional or practitioners in agriculture and food law, bring about an interest in this field of law in order to increase the community of public agriculture and food law to ensure that the leadership base of innovative and knowledge-based agriculture economic and scholarly activity is widened.
A third purpose of the programme is to provide South Africa and the global community with professional or practitioners who understand the constructive role they need to play as intellectual leaders in their society and who are empowered and equipped with the required research and analytical skills to play a key role in the continued shaping of the legal dispensation in a just society based on constitutional democracy within a world legal order.
Modules:
AFLN480 - Agriculture and Food Law
Syllabus/Content:
Introduction to agriculture and food law
The orientation that provides an overview of the legal and policy issues in agriculture and food industries
Administrative process and practice in agriculture and food law
Study of administrative law and practice in the specialised area of agriculture and food, the law that administers the way food produced, transported, allocated, consumed and discarded.
Regulated markets in Agriculture
The study will explore the economic regulation of specific to agriculture and food industry including regulation on food safety, labelling and consumer rights.
The Right to Food
Study an overview of the historical development of the right to food and legal framework that promotes the right to food
Global Food Security
Survey of the role of law and policy in affecting problems of global food security in the face of increased population, changing diets, environmental pressures and climate change.
Legal issues in Agricultural land tenure
Overview of the role landownership and use plays in the operation of agriculture and food production, looking at who owns farmland and in what legal structure.
Intellectual Property law in Food & Agricultural product
Introduction to intellectual property application on agriculture, patent law, trademarks, geographical indication, certification mark, collective marks, copyrights, food recipes as well as copyright on food labelling.
Agricultural Labour Law
Study of the legal, social and economic issues that arise from farmworkers and the application of labour law including seasonal farmworkers' rights protection.
AFLN481 - Agriculture and the Agricultural Industry
Syllabus/Content:
Introduction to agriculture and food law
The orientation that provides an overview of the legal and policy issues in agriculture and food industries
Administrative process and practice in agriculture and food law
Study of administrative law and practice in the specialised area of agriculture and food, the law that administers the way food produced, transported, allocated, consumed and discarded.
Regulated markets in Agriculture
The study will explore the economic regulation of specific to agriculture and food industry including regulation on food safety, labelling and consumer rights.
The Right to Food
Study an overview of the historical development of the right to food and legal framework that promotes the right to food
Global Food Security
Survey of the role of law and policy in affecting problems of global food security in the face of increased population, changing diets, environmental pressures and climate change.
Legal issues in Agricultural land tenure
Overview of the role landownership and use plays in the operation of agriculture and food production, looking at who owns farmland and in what legal structure.
Intellectual Property law in Food & Agricultural product
Introduction to intellectual property application on agriculture, patent law, trademarks, geographical indication, certification mark, collective marks, copyrights, food recipes as well as copyright on food labelling.
Agricultural Labour Law
Study of the legal, social and economic issues that arise from farmworkers and the application of labour law including seasonal farmworkers' rights protection.