Agriculture, development, and the global trading system: 2000– 2015
This book is devoted to the complex relationship between the global trading system and food security, focusing on two important elements: the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and how food price volatility can be managed, or not, through trade instruments. The first section of the book is based on the premise that more trade integration can fight poverty and alleviate hunger. The second section examines whether managing price volatility is doable through more or less trade integration. This section deals in particular with policy instruments available for policy makers to cope with price volatility: food stocks, crop insurance, and export restrictions. Analysis concludes that without a strong and efficient World Trade Organization (WTO) capable of conducting ambitious trade negotiations, the food security target will be much more difficult to hit.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Stage [Download]
Chapter 2 The Doha Round: Virtuous Circle or Infinite Loop? [Download]
Chapter 3 Why Is the Doha Development Agenda Failing? And What Can Be Done? A Computable General Equilibrium-Game Theoretical Approach [Download]
Chapter 4 Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success? [Download]
Chapter 5 BRIC Agricultural Policies through a WTO Lens [Download]
Chapter 6 Assessing the Potential Cost of a Failed Doha Round [Download]
Chapter 7 Domestic and Trade Policies Affecting the World Cotton Market [Download]
Chapter 8 Food Security Stocks: Economic and Operational Issues [Download]
Chapter 9 Food Security Stocks and the WTO Legal Framework [Download]
Chapter 10 Agricultural Insurance and the WTO [Download]
Chapter 11 A Quantitative Analysis of Trade Policy Responses to Higher World Agricultural Commodity Prices [Download]
Chapter 12 Food Crisis and Export Taxation: The Cost of Noncooperative Trade Policies [Download]
Chapter 13 Conclusion: Which Policy Space in the International Trade Arena Can Support Development and Food Security? [Download]