Recent global crises have led to diverse impacts across the world’s low- and middle-income regions, reflecting local conditions and differing policy responses.
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Our 2020 report on responses to COVID-19 discussed national pandemic response plans in developing countries (Díaz-Bonilla 2020).
Food security has been invoked for a variety of trade policy interventions and in many trade negotiations This chapter focuses on three trade topics for which food security concerns have been mentioned as the rationale (or at least part of it) for
Regional developments
As the coronavirus pandemic reached every corner of the world, countries responded rapidly with an array of policies to stop it, and then with social and economic policies to protect food security, incomes, and livelihoods.
Duality, urbanization, and modernization of agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
The agriculture sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is certainly not homogeneous, covering a variety of very different agroecological and climate zones, along a south-north axis.1 There are three large agricultural producers: Brazil (c
Una de las noticias importantes de la reunión del G-20 en nuestro país, en diciembre de 2018, fue la conversación entre las máximas autoridades de Estados Unidos y China para tratar de llegar a acuerdos sobre las disputas comerciales y de otro tip
These historically unprecedented times require unconventional responses.
Regional developments
Building inclusive food systems to help reach the goal of ending hunger and malnutrition globally will require innovation and investment at the regional and country levels.
At the regional and country level, developments in 2018 had important repercussions for food security and nutrition.
After reviewing the complexity and challenges in building food systems to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this article presents some suggestions for strengthening specific aspects of trade and investment policies.
During the past years there have been several noteworthy global pledges on eliminating hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and moving to environmentally sustainable patterns of production and consumption of food and agricultura
At the regional and country level, developments in 2017 had important repercussions for food security and nutrition.
El punto de partida de mi presentación es una teoría bastante extendida de nuestra historia, aunque inadecuada según trataré de argumentar, que afirma que la Argentina estaría declinando desde hace más de cien años.
The use of public food stocks for food security purposes is a hotly debated topic in agricultural negotiations within the World Trade Organization (WTO) (see Díaz-Bonilla, 2014, 2017a and 2017b).
With the stagnation of the Doha Round, the WTO has started a process known as “early harvest”.
The episodes of higher and volatile food prices during 2007-2008 and 2011-2012 have raised concerns about the role of agricultural export restrictions in further raising international prices and its impact on the food- insecure population in net f
The Market Access pillar is one of the most significant in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture because of its magnitude and the impact of any change on agricultural trade rules.
Some thoughts and proposals for a way forward
There is growing consensus that globalization, expansion of international trade, and rapid technological changes have favored developing countries more than developed ones.
This article explores various recent ideas that governments have put forward on the issue of agricultural domestic support, with a view to helping negotiators and other actors better understand how these might affect actual levels of support as we