04.2014 |
English, Handel, Landwirtschaft |
Putting food security before trade
The WTO and the conflict over food reserves

Introduction The last ministerial conference of the WTO, held in Bali/Indonesia in December 2013, had been overshadowed by a controversy over food security between a group of 33 developing countries (G33) and industrialized countries. The G33 sought changes to the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture removing some of the constraints on the implementation of food reserves, … weiterlesen