Food Crises And The Wto

Author : Baris Karapinar,Christian Häberli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139485869

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Food Crises and the WTO by Baris Karapinar,Christian Häberli Pdf

The food and financial crises of 2008 and 2009 have pushed millions more people into poverty and hunger, while changing the parameters of international trade. Both crises have also challenged the fundamentals of WTO rules regulating agriculture, which had been designed to combat trade distortions due to artificially low-priced food commodities. This collection of essays examines to what extent the multilateral trading system contributes to food security in today's volatile markets. Bringing together a renowned group of expert economists, lawyers, environmental and development specialists, it offers a fresh and multi-dimensional perspective combining a strong economic analysis with a comprehensive legal assessment of the interface between food security and international trade regulation. Together, the contributions provide concrete policy recommendations on how the WTO could play a positive role in preventing or mitigating future food crises and promote global food security.

Author : Baris Karapinar,Christian Häberli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521191068

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Food Crises and the WTO by Baris Karapinar,Christian Häberli Pdf

The food and financial crises of 2008 and 2009 have pushed millions more people into poverty and hunger, while changing the parameters of international trade. Both crises have also challenged the fundamentals of WTO rules regulating agriculture, which had been designed to combat trade distortions due to artificially low-priced food commodities. This collection of essays examines to what extent the multilateral trading system contributes to food security in today's volatile markets. Bringing together a renowned group of expert economists, lawyers, environmental and development specialists, it offers a fresh and multi-dimensional perspective combining a strong economic analysis with a comprehensive legal assessment of the interface between food security and international trade regulation. Together, the contributions provide concrete policy recommendations on how the WTO could play a positive role in preventing or mitigating future food crises and promote global food security.

Author : Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1554581982

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The Global Food Crisis by Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen Pdf

The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Author : Sachin Kumar Sharma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811021794

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The WTO and Food Security by Sachin Kumar Sharma Pdf

This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries’ efforts to address the challenges of food security. Further, it highlights the need to amend the provisions of the AoA to make WTO rules just and fair for the millions of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. This book highlights that 12 countries namely China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Zambia and Zimbabwe are facing or will face problems in implementing the food security policies due to the provisions under AoA. These provisions need to be amended for permitting developing countries to address hunger and undernourishment. Progress in WTO negotiations on public stockholding for food security purposes are also discussed and analysed. The findings of this study greatly benefit trade negotiators, policymakers, civil society, farmers groups, researchers, students and academics interested in issues related to the WTO, agriculture and food security.

Author : Eric Holt-Gimenez,Raj Patel
Publisher : Food First Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780935028416

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Food Rebellions by Eric Holt-Gimenez,Raj Patel Pdf

Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, authors Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck offer us the real story behind the global food crisis and document the growing trend of grassroots solutions to hunger spreading around the world. Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Holt-Giménez and Patel give a detailed historical analysis of the events that led to the global food crisis and document the grassroots initiatives of social movements working to forge food sovereignty around the world. These social movements and this inspiring book compel readers to confront the crucial question: Who is hungry, why, and what can we do about it?

Author : Christopher Rosin,Paul Stock,Hugh Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136529412

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Food Systems Failure by Christopher Rosin,Paul Stock,Hugh Campbell Pdf

This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal strategies which emphasize industrial efficiencies, commodity production and free trade-ideologies that underlie agricultural and food policies in what are frequently referred to as 'developed countries'. The book examines both the contradictions in the global food system as well as the implications of existing ideologies of production associated with commodity industrial agriculture using evidence from relevant international case studies. The book's first section presents the context of the food crisis with contributions from leading international academics and food policy activists, including climate scientists, ecologists and social scientists. These contributions identify current contradictions in policy and practice that impede solutions to the food crisis. Set within this context, the second section assesses current conditions in the global food system, including economic viability, sustainability and productivity. Case study analyses of regions exposed to neoliberal policy at the production end of the system provide insights into both current challenges to feeding the world, as well as alternative strategies for creating a more just and moral food system.

Author : Michael Ewing-Chow,Melanie Vilarasau Slade
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781785361890

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International Trade and Food Security by Michael Ewing-Chow,Melanie Vilarasau Slade Pdf

Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency. This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult for any single nation to guarantee adequate food production for itself. Through a collection of commissioned studies which draw upon the experience of leading experts and scholars in trade, investment, law, economics, and food policy, this book analyses the impact of this trend on the most essential crop in the Asian region - rice. It suggests that food security policy should be reconceptualised: from the national to the regional and even the global level. It also provides its own proposals as to how this new paradigm of collective food security should be understood and developed. The book calls for a new conversation in the region, acknowledging that the challenges we face are global and the solutions must be found in collective action. This state-of-the-art study will appeal to lawyers, economists and political scientists, as well as food security specialists by providing expert analyses and enlightening solutions for the future.

Author : Ying Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317008521

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Trade, Food Security, and Human Rights by Ying Chen Pdf

Most scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs. However, as Chen argues here, another significant factor has been overlooked. The current food insecurity is not absolute food shortage, since global food production still exceeds the need of the entire world population, but a problem of how to secure access to resources. Distorted agricultural trade undermines world food distribution, and uneven distribution impedes people’s access to food, particularly in poor developing countries. Examining EU and US agricultural policies and World Trade Organization negotiations in agriculture, the author argues how they affect the international agricultural trade, claiming that current food insecurity is the result of inequitable food distribution and trade practices. The international trade regime is advised to reconcile trade rules with the consideration of food security issues. Several other enforceable solutions to reduce world hunger and malnutrition are also advanced, including national capacity building, the improvement of governance, and strategic development of biofuel programs. This book will be of great interest to agricultural trade professionals and consultant policy makers in the EU, US and developing countries. Students and researchers with a concentration on international trade, agriculture economics, global governance and international law will benefit greatly from this study.

Author : Godwin S. Ichimi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031538810

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The World Trade Organization and Food Security in West Africa by Godwin S. Ichimi Pdf

Author : Peter Rosset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 1350220175

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Food is Different by Peter Rosset Pdf

Introduction : trade versus development? -- 1. Trade negotiations and trade liberalization -- 2. Key issues, misconceptions, disagreements and alternative paradigms -- 3. Dumping and subsidies : unraveling the confusion -- 4. The impacts of liberalized agricultural trade -- 5. Alternatives for a different agriculture and food system -- Conclusion : another food system is possible.

Author : Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis,Shabd S. Acharya,Benjamin Davis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199236558

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Food Security:Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis,Shabd S. Acharya,Benjamin Davis Pdf

What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy?Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to end poverty. The emergence of the WTO and the freeing of agricultural trade, for example, have serious implications for hunger and food security in many countries, yet this is an area that is relatively understudied. This book aims to fill this gap by providing a significant collection of essays from mainstream academia and prominent internationalorganizations working for food security. Examining food security across regions, the book tackles food security at three distinct levels-national, household, and individual. Other topics included are: attempts to improve measurement tools; the applications of existing tools for empirical analysis usinghousehold data, and; the impact of trade openness on national food security.

Author : Amir Fouad,Ian Gillson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464803056

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Trade Policy and Food Security by Amir Fouad,Ian Gillson Pdf

Increased trade integration holds considerable potential to stabilize food prices, boost returns to farmers, and reduce the prices faced by consumers. This book explores the effects of food price changes on economic welfare in developing countries, and how these can be mitigated through appropriate national policies at the border.

Author : Craig VanGrasstek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822040886871

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The History and Future of the World Trade Organization by Craig VanGrasstek Pdf

This comprehensive account of the establishment of the WTO focuses on those who shaped its creation as well as those who have influenced its evolution. It also examines trade negotiations, the WTO's dispute settlement role, the process of joining, and what lies ahead for the organization.

Author : D. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230589780

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World Food Security by D. Shaw Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues.

Author : Matthias Kalkuhl,Joachim von Braun,Maximo Torero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319282015

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Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy by Matthias Kalkuhl,Joachim von Braun,Maximo Torero Pdf

This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.