Food security

An Introduction to the Development Box

The Development Box proposal has been put forward by a number of developing country delegations at the WTO, and will be discussed at the Committee on Agriculture at its February 2002 meeting. This background briefing is produced by a number of NGOs that support the proposal.

Press Statement by the "Friends of the Development Box"

Press statement charging the U.S. and the EU ag policy as the cause of food insecurity and unemployment in the developing world. The Development Box grooup calls for specific language in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture being negotiated at the Doha Ministerial that protects farmers in the devloping world.

Press Statement by the "Friends of the Development Box"

Press statement charging the U.S. and the EU ag policy as the cause of food insecurity and unemployment in the developing world. The Development Box grooup calls for specific language in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture being negotiated at the Doha Ministerial that protects farmers in the devloping world.

WTO Food and Agriculture Rules: Sustainable Agriculture and the Human RIght to Food

Published in the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Winter 2000, Vol. 9, Issue 1. This paper was also a presentation given by Mark Ritchie at the International Cooperative Agricultural Organization General Assembly in Quebec City, Quebec on August 29, 1999. The focus of this paper is the the impact of agricultural export dumping by grain corporations based in the U.S.

Mississippi River Expansion Project Will Not Help Farmers

Op ed from the St. Louis Dispatch disputing claims that increased exports of agricultural commodities will benefit developing world.

WTO, Agricultural Deregulation and Food Security

Published in Foreign Policy In Focus, Volume 4, Number 34, December 1999. Can deregulated world markets ensure food security for the world? No negotiator of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could honestly say that this was the first intent of the agreement. Yet, the AoA preamble lists food security as one of the legitimate "non-trade" objectives of agriculture policy.

World Trade Organization and the Human Right to Food Security, The

Speech presented to the International Cooperative Agricultural Organization General Assembly in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. August 29, 1999

Food Security, Farmers and a Fair Place for the South

Proceedings of the Washington, DC Meeting on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, September 30-October 4th, 1998. Sponsored by IATP, Solagral and the Foundation Charles Leopold Mayer pour le Progres de l'Homme. The purpose of this document is to provide continuing collective educational material and further the movement-building process.

World Trade Organization and Food Security-What is at Stake

In preparation for the next trade talks, this paper takes a close look at some of the most important key elements at stake for farmers, peasant organizations and civil society. The most prominent areas of direct impact for food security are the upcoming talks on plant patenting and on general agriculture rules.

Food Security and Agricultural Trade Under NAFTA

Three years after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement began, as agricultural economists debate whether changes in trade flows of commodities may, or may not, be traced to NAFTA itself, a separate but related question remains unaddressed, has NAFTA improved food security in North America?