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Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade (Global Issues S.) ISBN: 1856498654 ISBN13: 9781856498654 Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade (Global Issues S.) By: John Madeley Publisher: Zed Books Ltd Format: Paperback Our Price: 10.44 Discount: 5% RRP: 10.99

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As the fallout from the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues, John Madeley explores some key questions about the free trade that it advocates: will free trade in food help or hinder the abolition of world hunger?; who benefits first? the poor? or the transnational corporations?; will free trade help Third World farmers find new international markets?; or will the flood of cheap, subsidized food from the North eliminate them?; how can countries - North and South, rich and poor - protect their farmers?; and how can self-sufficiency in food production be achieved? John Madeley shows that the food imports of many developing countries are rising sharply while their food exports to the industrial countries are not. He exposes the contradictions between Western governments' rhetoric about reducing world poverty and the drive to yet more trade liberalization.


Contents:

Part 1 Seattle 1999: preparation
- trade rounds
- NGO activity
- agriculture split
- the ministerial
- the collapse

Part 2 Food scurity - the causes of insecurity: food insecurity
- poor soils
- desertification
- women farmers have been neglected
- disasters
- lack of spending on agriculture
- foreign debt
- conflict
- lack of democracy
- climate change
- population and land
- water
- loss of crop diversity
- inadequate funding for health
- fisheries under attack

Part 3 Trade liberalization: the case for free trade
- the case against
- export-dominated trade policies

Part 4 International organizations and policy affecting trade and food security: World Bank/International Monetary Fund
- the World Trade Organization
- United Nations bodies - UNCTAD, FAO, UNDP
- European Union
- food dumping

Part 5 Trade liberalization and food security - the evidence: FAO study
- NGO 36 country study
- India
- farmers speak
- Zimbabwe
- milk in Uruguay
- roses in India
- World Bank study

Part 6 Corporate managed trade - patents: power
- patents and trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPs)
- TRIPs
- biopiracy
- basmati rice
- the future

Part 7 Corporate managed trade - genetically modified foods: NGOs and GM foods
- labelling
- protocol
- conclusion
- box - ten reasons

Part 8 Putting food security into trade - NGOs speak: 14 development NGO recommendations
- Friends of the Earth
- Via Campesina
- proposals on TRIPs
- Food First
- CAFOD
- UK Food Group
- footnote - discrimination
- box - why reform of the WTO is the wrong agenda

Part 9 Conclusion - food security with less trade?: permaculture
- pesticide reductions
- Brazil
- Cuba
- fair trade
- conclusion.


Brief Description:

Explores some key questions regarding the year 2000 World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture. Will free trade in food help or hinder the abolition of hunger - or will it chiefly benefit transnational corporations? Will free trade help small farmers find new markets in the North?

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