The WTO Agreement on Agriculture and Food Security

Stevens, Christopher; Greenhill, Romilly; Kennan, Jane; Devereux, Stephen

doi:10.14217/9781848597235-en

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“…The historical degree of involvement of the federal government in coffee production and trade far surpassed that of both Guatemala and Honduras. Not only did INMECAFE cultivate a strong dependence of farmers on the state, but also in the process promoting monocultures of coffee as part of its modernization policy, INMECAFE also indirectly undermined individual and community risk management strategies involving income and agricultural diversification (similar ‘maladaptive’ policies have been noted in other country contexts; see Stevens et al . 2003).…”

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Responding to the coffee crisis: a pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

Eakin¹,

Tucker²,

Castellanos³

2006

Geographical Journal

122

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This article explores the impacts of market shocks and institutional change on smallholder livelihoods, and the challenge of adaptation in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The rapid decline in coffee prices since the dissolution of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989 has had widespread and profound impacts across coffee‐producing regions. The data collected in the three case studies of this project confirm the severity of the impact, particularly in the Mexican and Guatemalan communities. They also illustrate the importance of the historical relationship between farmers and public institutions in defining farmers’ perception of risk, their awareness of the nature of the changes they face, and thus the flexibility of their responses to present and future uncertainty. The project's findings indicate that the existence and development of local networks among farmers, service providers and information sources may be critical for facilitating adaptation, particularly in the context of economic liberalization and globalized agriculture.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Responding to the coffee crisis: a pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

Eakin¹,

Tucker²,

Castellanos³

2006

Geographical Journal

122

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“…It should be stressed, however, that the effect of agricultural development and trade on the available food inequality is hard to evaluate separately because the current patterns of production are often the result of trade policies (Stevens et al 2003 ). Trade affects each country's production either by pushing exporting countries to sustain higher levels of production than their domestic demand or by decreasing production in importing countries in which local farmers are outcompeted by their international counterparts.…”

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Food Inequality, Injustice, and Rights

et al. 2019

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As humanity continues to grow in size, questions related to human rights and the existing unequal distribution of food resources have taken on greater urgency. Is inequality in food access unjust or a regrettable consequence of the geographic distribution of biophysical resources? To what extent are there obligations to redress inequalities in access to food? We draw from a human rights perspective to identify obligations associated with access to food and develop a quantitative framework to evaluate the fulfillment of the human right to food. We discuss the capacity of socioeconomic development to reduce inequalities in per capita food availability with respect to the distribution of biophysical resources among countries. Although, at the country level, international trade shows the capacity to reduce human rights deficits by increasing food availability in countries with limited food production, whether it actually improves the fulfillment of the right to food will depend on within-country inequality.

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“…Desde 1995, año en que se creó la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), se agregó a su agenda la agricultura y los derechos de propiedad intelectual, cuyos efectos se interpretan desde posiciones contradictorias. Sus detractores señalan que tal injerencia destruye las pequeñas economías locales agrícolas, con consecuencias graves para la seguridad alimentaria: un sistema privatizado de la seguridad alimentaria internacional, institucionalizado en los protocolos de la OMC 11 , mientras que los defensores de la seguridad alimentaria, basada en el libre comercio, plantean que debería ser posible conciliar el objetivo de la liberalización del comercio agrícola internacional con la aplicación de políticas eficaces de seguridad alimentaria en los países en desarrollo 12 .…”

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Revisión de enfoques de políticas alimentarias: entre la seguridad y la soberanía alimentaria (2000-2013)

Giraldo

Franco-Giraldo

2015

Cad. Saúde Pública

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Las políticas alimentarias han cobrado especial interés, a raíz de la crisis alimentaria mundial de 2008 y el impulso de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio; dando lugar a enfoques desde diversas orientaciones disciplinarias. Esta revisión temática tiene como objetivo describir los principales enfoques teóricos y metodológicos de políticas, elaborados desde las perspectivas de la seguridad alimentaria y soberanía alimentaria. Se realizó una búsqueda en bases de datos para publicaciones académicas entre 2000 y 2013. De 2.699 publicaciones, se seleccionaron 320 artículos completos. Luego de su lectura para aplicar los criterios de inclusión, se conservaron 55 artículos para el análisis. Se concluye que, frente al predominio de la seguridad alimentaria como orientadora de políticas, emerge la respuesta crítica de la soberanía alimentaria, que debe ser incluida en el diseño y estudio de políticas alimentarias. Éstas son un asunto esencial para el logro de los objetivos de la salud pública. Por tanto, ella debe asumir un rol protagónico, orientador y articulador en dichas políticas.

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The WTO Agreement on Agriculture and Food Security

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Responding to the coffee crisis: a pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

Responding to the coffee crisis: a pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

Food Inequality, Injustice, and Rights

Revisión de enfoques de políticas alimentarias: entre la seguridad y la soberanía alimentaria (2000-2013)

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