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"Food Security and International Trade: a Key Issue during the Negotiation of the Doha Round" by Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio Abstract The issue of Food Security and International Trade has been a cornerstone of the multilateral trade negotiations of the Doha Round (still in progress). This presentation summarizes the key elements of the debate. In a first part, I mention the different channels affecting food and nutrition security, focusing on trade and trade policies. First, trade and trade policies influence global food availability, as well as production and food imports (including food aid) at the national level. Second, trade and trade policies affect both producers’ profits and consumers’ costs, mainly, but not only, through their effect on food prices, both global and domestic. Third, trade and trade policies may also have an impact on the level and stability of economic growth, as well as on that growth’s employment generation, income distribution patterns, and poverty effects. Fourth, government revenues, through the collection of trade taxes and through the impact of the rate and variability of growth on general tax collection, are also impacted by trade and trade policies. Finally, trade policies may lead to lower or higher volatility in production, stocks, and prices at the world and/or national levels for different commodities and markets. These multiple channels through which trade can impact food security have implications for the FAO’s definition of food security. In a second part, I go into more detail regarding the links between trade, trade policies, and food security, specifically in the context of the WTO. I conclude that the links between trade and food and nutrition security are incredibly complicated. Trade policies are just one instrument with which to address these concerns, with a variety of potential aggregate and distributive impacts that need to be fully considered. Trade policies do have the potential to make a positive contribution to global poverty alleviation and food security. But to ensure this positive impact, we need a new way of thinking about trade... |
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- Economic development - Agricultural policies - Food prices and food security - Not Applicable |
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