International Trade and Food Security: Can Agrobiodiversity Reconcile Both?
(2013) Peace and Progress — Vol. 1, n° 1, p. 18-32 (2013)
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- This paper focuses on how economic dynamics regarding global markets and international trade regulations affect food security, with a specific focus on agrobiodiversity, mainly by identifying major gaps in existing international reports. The question of how the concept of food security has evolved and how it has been addressed and analyzed at the international level by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) will first be explained, followed by argument on how the lack of an internationally coordinated response to address the economic impacts on food insecurity has led to market disruptions and price volatility. This paper argues that global economic governance should focus on tackling these issues through international trade policies aimed at enhancing agrobiodiversity, which would in turn enhance food security, especially for those countries where people in demand of food is not particularly solvent. Issues that are clearly linked with food security, namely global governance, political economy, and agrobiodiversity, will be addressed here. Food security is also strongly linked with other thematic areas, including climate change, rural development, sustainable land use, aid effectiveness, and health. It is difficult to understand the international response to global food security as an isolated issue; we must see it as part of the larger picture of the global development framework, and analyze it along with other on-going international processes.
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Fernandez-Wulff Barreiro, P. (2013). International Trade and Food Security: Can Agrobiodiversity Reconcile Both? Peace and Progress, 1(1), 18-32. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/93780 (Original work published 2013)