Food is Different

Why We Must Get the WTO out of Agriculture

AvPeter M. Rosset

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Why does our global food system gives us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food, where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself? Why do farmers and peasants from around the world lead massive protests each and every time the World Trade Organization meets?Peter Rosset explains how the runaway free trade policies and neoliberal economics of the WTO, American government and European Union kill farmers, and give us a food system that nobody outside of a small corporate elite wants. This essential guide sets out an alternative vision for agricultural policy, taking it completely out of the WTO's ambit. Food is not just another commodity, to be bought and sold like a microchip, but something which goes to the heart of human livelihood, culture and society.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-02-29
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:193
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781848130647
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Serie:Global Issues

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Peter Rosset is a food rights activist and agro-ecologist. He is based in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he is a researcher at the Centro de Estudios para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano (Center for Studies of Rural Change in Mexico), and co-coordinator of the Land Research Action Network. He is also Global Alternatives Associate of the Center for the Study of the Americas and is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management of the University of California.His previous books include: The Case for GM-Free Sustainable World (2003); Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba (2002); and America Needs Human Rights (1999).

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...Looks at the key issues..Feasible policy proposals are presented concerning dumping, supply management, anti-trust measures, subsidies, and venues for negotiations that could achieve just that.

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Prologue: Speak the Truth: Exclude the WTO from Agriculture, by Lee Kyung HaeForeword: Farmers Around the World Lose out Under the WTO, by George NaylorIntroduction: Trade versus Development?1. Trade Negotiations and Trade Liberalization2. Key Issues, Misconceptions, Disagreements and Alternative Paradigms3. Dumping and Subsidies: Unravelling the Confusion4. The Impacts of Liberalized Agricultural Trade5. Alternatives for a Different Agriculture and Food SystemConclusion - Another Food System is PossibleSpecial Topics:How the WTO Rules AgricultureGovernment Negotiating BlocsWhere European and American Family Farmers StandWhere Peasant and Family Farm Organizations StandFood from Family Farms Act: a Proposal for the 2007 US Farm BillFor a Legitimate, Sustainable and Supportive CAPPeople's Food Sovereignty Statement