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Prof. Dr. Margherita Paola Poto
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

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Margherita Paola Poto is currently involved in an interdisciplinary project at the crossroads of food, environment, and health. Her research interests cover comparative administrative law, environmental law, indigenous law and methodology, ocean and nature-centered visions, illustrated storytelling applied to law.

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Journal article
Published: 30 April 2021 in Sustainability
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“Novel food” in the European Union’s (EU) legal terms refers to any food that was not used for human consumption to a significant degree within the EU before 15 May 1997 (Regulation 2015/2283/EU (2015)). Placing novel food on the market requires a safety assessment when such novelty is ascertained, with the consequent need of an authorization procedure that is not required for food traditionally conceived in the EU. Studies have highlighted how such a Eurocentric proof of traditional/novel use of food results in unequal treatment of third countries, with a slowdown of their market investments in the EU market. This contribution addresses this aspect by critically examining the disparity of treatment and suggesting the adoption of a wide-ranging interpretation of food novelty that considers the biocultural context in which food is embedded. This work is based on a critical legal analysis through the hermeneutics of Reg. 2015/2283/EU (2015) and a case study on algae from Northern Norway and Sápmi, carried out by the project SECURE. We conclude that a legal interpretation connecting food to its biocultural context would contribute to qualify it as traditional and therefore facilitate its placement on the market. Our case study provides an example of the macroalgae collected in Northern Norway/Sápmi that through the criterion of the biocultural context would qualify as traditional food, without recourse to the authorization procedure. Further research could assess whether the European Commission’s list of authorized novel foods (which include algae whose status as novel food has been inquired and assessed) expands to also comprehend some of the low-trophic marine resources (LTMR) harvested in Northern Norway/Sápmi.

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Margherita Poto; Mathilde Morel. Suggesting an Extensive Interpretation of the Concept of Novelty That Looks at the Bio-Cultural Dimension of Food. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5065 .

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Margherita Poto, Mathilde Morel. Suggesting an Extensive Interpretation of the Concept of Novelty That Looks at the Bio-Cultural Dimension of Food. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5065.

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Margherita Poto; Mathilde Morel. 2021. "Suggesting an Extensive Interpretation of the Concept of Novelty That Looks at the Bio-Cultural Dimension of Food." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5065.

Book review
Published: 13 December 2020 in The Yearbook of Polar Law Online
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Margherita Paola Poto; Apostolos Tsiouvalas. Stephen Allen, Nigel Bankes and Oyvind Ravna (eds), The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Marine Areas (Hart Publishing 2019) 432 pp. ISBN: 978-1-50992-864-4 (HB); 978-1-50992-866-8 (ePDF); 978-1-50992-865-1 (ePub). The Yearbook of Polar Law Online 2020, 12, 460 -464.

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Margherita Paola Poto, Apostolos Tsiouvalas. Stephen Allen, Nigel Bankes and Oyvind Ravna (eds), The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Marine Areas (Hart Publishing 2019) 432 pp. ISBN: 978-1-50992-864-4 (HB); 978-1-50992-866-8 (ePDF); 978-1-50992-865-1 (ePub). The Yearbook of Polar Law Online. 2020; 12 (1):460-464.

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Margherita Paola Poto; Apostolos Tsiouvalas. 2020. "Stephen Allen, Nigel Bankes and Oyvind Ravna (eds), The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Marine Areas (Hart Publishing 2019) 432 pp. ISBN: 978-1-50992-864-4 (HB); 978-1-50992-866-8 (ePDF); 978-1-50992-865-1 (ePub)." The Yearbook of Polar Law Online 12, no. 1: 460-464.

Journal article
Published: 20 November 2020 in Sustainability
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Climate-smart solutions and practices have the potential to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of achieving zero hunger; ensuring healthy lives and promoting the wellbeing of humans, animals, and plants; reducing ocean overharvesting and overfishing; tackling climate change; driving economic growth; and promoting innovation. Achieving these goals will require searching for, defining, and adopting the most effective and suitable scientific approach for studying synergies between often-opposing socioeconomic and environmental priorities. Developing a critical conceptual framework as a reading key for the SDGs’ interactions (theory building) and exploring the possibilities of upscaling successful climate-smart practices, with the case study offered by the SECURE project (theory testing) are the two methods adopted to answer the research hypothesis on the validity and scope of conceptual frameworks for complex systems. The paper concludes with a call for further testing of tools, approaches, and methods to enable dynamic systems thinking to inform upscaling efforts, while recognizing the transdisciplinary nature and complexity of the study of low-trophic marine resources as a constituent of food production, and environmental and health protection systems.

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Margherita Poto. A Conceptual Framework for Complex Systems at the Crossroads of Food, Environment, Health, and Innovation. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9692 .

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Margherita Poto. A Conceptual Framework for Complex Systems at the Crossroads of Food, Environment, Health, and Innovation. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9692.

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Margherita Poto. 2020. "A Conceptual Framework for Complex Systems at the Crossroads of Food, Environment, Health, and Innovation." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9692.

Book chapter
Published: 26 March 2019 in European Institute for Food Law series
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Margherita Paola Poto. 9. Shaping solutions to climate change and food (in)security by integrating peoples’ environmental knowledge in the Arctic regions. European Institute for Food Law series 2019, 143 -154.

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Margherita Paola Poto. 9. Shaping solutions to climate change and food (in)security by integrating peoples’ environmental knowledge in the Arctic regions. European Institute for Food Law series. 2019; ():143-154.

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Margherita Paola Poto. 2019. "9. Shaping solutions to climate change and food (in)security by integrating peoples’ environmental knowledge in the Arctic regions." European Institute for Food Law series , no. : 143-154.

Journal article
Published: 31 July 2018 in Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi
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One of the largest remaining unexploited iron ore deposits in Europe is the Kallak Iron Deposit in the province of Norrbotten in northern Sweden, where a significant Sámi population is located. Since 2011, the UK-based company, Beowulf Mining, has begun a large campaign for extraction in northern and southern Kallak. However, the Sámi of the region, together with environmentalists and non-Sámi individuals have drastically expressed their opposition blocking with various ways the processes. The Sámi being aware of the environmental risk have concerns about their ability to drive reindeer across the land, and the impact Beowulf’s operations are likely to have on the reindeer migratory patterns. Nowadays, seven years after the initial application for licensing, the approval of the application is still pending and Beowulf is pressing more and more the Swedish authorities for a final response in order to start extracting. Only the County Administrative Board of Norrbotten, despite its initial consent, still advocates for Sámi and their reindeer refusing to issue licensing for the British company. Accordingly, this article was designed as a descriptive study of the legal framework of the implementation of this endeavour addressing the legal arguments of both sides as they derive from a qualitative study of official documents, environmental reports, and relative articles of scholars. Concluding, the article illustrates the gaps of legal protection of indigenous land-rights in Sweden presenting their vulnerability to such kind of challenges.

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Apostolos Tsiouvalas; Margherita Paola Poto. INDIGENOUS RIGHTS TO DEFEND LAND AND TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES. Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi 2018, 5, 13 -28.

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Apostolos Tsiouvalas, Margherita Paola Poto. INDIGENOUS RIGHTS TO DEFEND LAND AND TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES. Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi. 2018; 5 (1):13-28.

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Apostolos Tsiouvalas; Margherita Paola Poto. 2018. "INDIGENOUS RIGHTS TO DEFEND LAND AND TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES." Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi 5, no. 1: 13-28.

Review
Published: 01 January 2018 in Arctic Review on Law and Politics
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Margherita Paola Poto. Review of Elana Wilson Rowe, Arctic Governance. Power in Cross-Border Cooperation. Arctic Review on Law and Politics 2018, 9, 262 -263.

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Margherita Paola Poto. Review of Elana Wilson Rowe, Arctic Governance. Power in Cross-Border Cooperation. Arctic Review on Law and Politics. 2018; 9 ():262-263.

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Margherita Paola Poto. 2018. "Review of Elana Wilson Rowe, Arctic Governance. Power in Cross-Border Cooperation." Arctic Review on Law and Politics 9, no. : 262-263.

Research article
Published: 01 March 2017 in Environmental Law Review
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This article aims to analyse the participatory mechanisms in environmental decision making with a focus on indigenous peoples (IP)’s engagement in the Arctic Council (AC)’s decisions. The first part offers a comprehensive perspective of the IP self-determination requirement as both the means and the end of their full participation to environmental decisions: self-determination is both the grounding factor for IP participation and the driving force to the empowerment, self-sufficiency and autonomy of the participants themselves. The second part briefly sketches the role of the Arctic Council as the active arena for the development of international initiatives primarily focusing on the protection of the Arctic environment, as well as looking at it as the platform where non-state actors (IP in particular) play a major role as permanent participants. The third and final part focuses on the participatory tools enabling a pluralistic engagement of IP in general and of the IP within the Arctic Council in particular.

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Margherita Paola Poto. Participatory engagement and the empowerment of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples. Environmental Law Review 2017, 19, 30 -47.

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Margherita Paola Poto. Participatory engagement and the empowerment of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples. Environmental Law Review. 2017; 19 (1):30-47.

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Margherita Paola Poto. 2017. "Participatory engagement and the empowerment of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples." Environmental Law Review 19, no. 1: 30-47.