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Global agricultural trade has seen tremendous growth since creation of the WTO in 1995 and US agriculture has been a major beneficiary of the rules-based system that the United States and others helped create.
The scope of this book is very well established in the first three chapters.
After two decades of economic decline and stagnation, Africa has witnessed a remarkable overall economic and agricultural recovery over the last decade.
Recent dramatic increases in food prices are having severe consequences for poor countries and poor people.
The prices of maize, wheat, rice, and other crops have more than doubled over the past two years.
High food prices
"The food price crisis hits a world that has the most unequal distribution of income ever, and a world that has left the poorest behind.
"World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period.