World Trade in Agricultural Products: from Global Regulation to Market Fragmentation

Tubiana, Laurence

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“…At the same time, food aid provisioned emerging urban labour forces (and their political regimes) with cheap food, stimulating industrialisation, and promoting food dependency in the longer run. Agricultural commodity prices were stabilised during this period by government-managed trade in surplus foods (Tubiana 1989). Meanwhile 'counterpart funds' encouraged agribusiness expansion in the Third World, developing livestock industries supplied with American grains, followed by the introduction of 'Green Revolution' technologies to expand staple food supplies and de-politicise the countryside.…”

Section: Conceptual Evolutionmentioning

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A food regime genealogy

McMichael

2009

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Food regime analysis emerged to explain the strategic role of agriculture and food in the construction of the world capitalist economy. It identifies stable periods of capital accumulation associated with particular configurations of geopolitical power, conditioned by forms of agricultural production and consumption relations within and across national spaces. Contradictory relations within food regimes produce crisis, transformation, and transition to successor regimes. This 'genealogy' traces the development of food regime analysis in relation to historical and intellectual trends over the past two decades, arguing that food regime analysis underlines agriculture's foundational role in political economy/ecology.

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Section: Conceptual Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A food regime genealogy

McMichael

2009

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…This situation differs little from Fordist conditions in which contradictions in the productivist support for U .S. farmers led to inherent overproduction of food goods and, in turn, to the internationalization of American food tastes and farm practices (Tubiana 1989) . America's trade of its food surplus during Fordism conditioned the nature of global food trade, and, at present, contradictions in the agricultural policies of the European Union, the United States, and Japan affect the process of trade liberalization.…”

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Green Protectionism and Organic Food Exporting from New Zealand: Crisis Experiments in the Breakdown of Fordist Trade and Agricultural Policies

Campbell

Coombes

1999

Rural Sociology

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The exporting of organic produce from New Zealand is a response to the ongoing breakdown of Fordist regulatory measures for agriculture in destination markets. The unambiguous neoliberal revolution in New Zealand has survived only through the expansion of food exports, especially by large corporate entities and producer marketing boards. It has also rendered the country's exporters of food products particularly sensitive to the trade and agricultural policies of the United States, Japan, and the European Union. Some commentators consider New Zealand's experiment in agricultural deregulation indicative of a wider coherence in global food trade, a new stability institutionalized in the Uruguay Round of the GATT and regulated under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. The case of organic and low‐input food exporting from New Zealand shows that no such ‘new times’ exist. Rather, these new types of food exporting are crisis experiments induced by green protectionism—the use of health and food safety issues as an impediment to trade. In turn, green protectionism is a direct result of the continuing breakdown of Fordist agricultural regulation in key nations: the global trade in food products remains in crisis.

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“…Mais ainda, os preços passaram a oscilar mais fortemente enquanto aumentavam as dificuldades dos países arquitetarem um arranjo multilateral para as transações comerciais mundiais. A expectativa de cooperação entre países exportadores deu lugar a um ambiente de guerra comercial, em que acordos bilaterais se tornaram mais comuns (Tubiana 1989). De modo é que o princípio do livre comércio acoplado às vantagens comparativas, permeando a maior parte das análises, passou a ser desafiado pela proliferação de estratégias protecionistas sob diversos arranjos institucionais.…”

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A agricultura nas negociações da Rodada Doha e suas implicações para o Brasil

Rodrigues

Paula

2008

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Resumo: A análise desenvolvida neste artigo trata da evolução do comércio mundial, com ênfase nas negociações multilaterais, desde a criação do GATT em 1948, até a presente Rodada Doha de negociações da OMC. Para tanto, destaca-se o papel das instituições na construção de um ambiente mais propício para o livre comércio, particularmente na agricultura. Afinal este tem sido um setor crucial, não apenas para o avanço das negociações em curso, mas também para as relações comerciais do Brasil. Adicionalmente, a agricultura tem sido um dos setores mais protegidos no comércio mundial, tendo estado fora da regulamentação do GATT até a Rodada Uruguai, quando foi aprovado o acordo sobre agricultura, implementado a partir de 1995. Tendo em vista o curto alcance de seus resultados em termos de diminuição de subsídios e tarifas à agricultura, este setor de atividades continua no centro do impasse que tem marcado a Rodada Doha. É em grande parte devido a isso que a grande expectativa de uma maior liberalização do comércio deu lugar a uma incerteza generalizada quanto a um avanço satisfatório nas negociações. Palavras-chave: comércio agrícola; Rodada Doha; agricultura brasileira. Agriculture in the multilateral negotiations of the Doha Round and their implications for BrazilAbstract: This article aims to analyse the evolution of world trade, with emphasis on the multilateral negotiations, since GATT was created in 1948, through the current Doha round of WTO. The role of institutions in building a favourable environment for free trade, particularly in agriculture, is stressed. After all, not only has the farming sector been crucial for the negotiations to succeed, but also for the trade relations of many developing countries, including Brazil. Besides, agriculture has been one of the most protected sectors in world trade and as such

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World Trade in Agricultural Products: from Global Regulation to Market Fragmentation

Cited by 21 publications

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A food regime genealogy

A food regime genealogy

Green Protectionism and Organic Food Exporting from New Zealand: Crisis Experiments in the Breakdown of Fordist Trade and Agricultural Policies

A agricultura nas negociações da Rodada Doha e suas implicações para o Brasil

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