Demystifying Blue Box Support to Agriculture Under the WTO: Implications for Developing Countries

Sharma, Sachin Kumar; Dobhal, Adeet; Agrawal, Surabhi; Das, Abhijit

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“…Although all member nations were required to reduce "tradedistorting" support (by 20% for developed countries or 13% for developing), reduction commitments were tied to support levels between 1986 and 1988 -a period when US and EU farm support was very high compared to the rest of the world. Thus, developed nations account for 95% of current global "total aggregate measure of support" (AMS) entitlement, creating an artificial comparative advantage for developed country agricultural producers, and displacing farmers in developing countries (Sharma et al, 2021).…”

Section: Farm Justice In a Globalizing Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in agricultural policy

Graddy‐Lovelace

Krikorian

Jewett

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Rather than treating symptoms of a destructive agri-food system, agricultural policy, research, and advocacy need both to address the root causes of dysfunction and to learn from longstanding interventions to counter it. Specifically, this paper focuses on agricultural parity policies – farmer-led, government-enacted programs to secure a price floor and manage supply to prevent the economic and ecological devastation of unfettered corporate agro-capitalism. Though these programs remain off the radar in dominant policy, scholarship, and civil society activism, but in the past few years, vast swaths of humanity have mobilized in India to call for agri-food systems transformation through farmgate pricing and market protections. This paper asks what constitutes true farm justice and how it could be updated and expanded as an avenue for radically reimagining agriculture and thus food systems at large. Parity refers to both a pricing ratio to ensure livelihood, but also a broader farm justice movement built on principles of fair farmgate prices and cooperatively coordinated supply management. The programs and principles are now mostly considered “radical,” deemed inefficient, irrelevant, obsolete, and grievous government overeach—but from the vantage, we argue, of a system that profits from commodity crop overproduction and agroindustry consolidation. However, by examining parity through a producer-centric lens cognizant of farmers‘ ability, desire, and need to care for the land, ideas of price protection and supply coordination become foundational, so that farmers can make a dignified livelihood stewarding land and water while producing nourishing food. This paradox—that an agricultural governance principle can seem both radical and common sense, far-fetched and pragmatic—deserves attention and analysis. As overall numbers of farmers decline in Global North contexts, their voices dwindle from these conversations, leaving space for worldviews favoring de-agrarianization altogether. In Global South contexts maintaining robust farming populations, such policies for deliberate de-agrarianization bely an aggression toward rural and peasant ways of life and land tenure. Alongside the history of parity programs, principles, and movements in U.S., the paper will examine a vast version of a parity program in India – the Minimum Support Price (MSP) system, which Indian farmers defended and now struggle to expand into a legal right. From East India to the plains of the United States and beyond, parity principles and programs have the potential to offer a pragmatic direction for countering global agro-industrial corporate capture, along with its de-agrarianization, and environmental destruction. The paper explores what and why of parity programs and movements, even as it addresses the complexity of how international parity agreements would unfold. It ends with the need for global supply coordination grounded in food sovereignty and solidarity, and thus the methodological urgency of centering farm justice and agrarian expertise.

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Section: Farm Justice In a Globalizing Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in agricultural policy

Graddy‐Lovelace

Krikorian

Jewett

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Smart Agriculture and Rural Revitalization and Development Based on the Internet of Things under the Background of Big Data

2023

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Smart agriculture refers to the specific performance of the smart economy in the field of agriculture; it is a form of agricultural smart economy and an important part of the smart economy. It has played a certain role in promoting rural revitalization and development. The purpose of this paper was to study the role of smart agriculture based on the Internet of Things in rural revitalization and development under the background of big data. The purpose was to use Internet of Things technology to realize smart agriculture under the background of big data, so as to promote rapid rural revitalization and development. Therefore, in this paper, a fuzzy PID algorithm and genetic algorithm were proposed. Finally, through experimental analysis, the fuzzy PID algorithm was used to carry out experiments in the laboratory. The temperature and humidity of the laboratory were measured. The average difference between the collected and actual temperature values was 0.6 °C, and the maximum difference between the collected and actual humidity values was 1.32% RH. The laboratory simulation results satisfied the performance indicators and technical requirements of the system. The system operated normally and could be directly applied to field tests. The experimental results show that the role of Internet of Things technology in the smart agricultural economy is irreplaceable, which further illustrates the positive relationship between smart agriculture based on the Internet of Things and rural revitalization and development. As one of the most mature technologies in today’s society, the Internet of Things technology combined with smart agriculture not only offers new perspectives, but also promotes the revitalization and development of rural areas, indicating a new direction for its future research.

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Demystifying Blue Box Support to Agriculture Under the WTO: Implications for Developing Countries

Cited by 2 publications

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Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in agricultural policy

Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in agricultural policy

Smart Agriculture and Rural Revitalization and Development Based on the Internet of Things under the Background of Big Data

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