Häberli, Christian (2012). Do WTO rules improve or impair the right to food? In: McMahon, Joseph E.; Desta, Melaku Geboye (eds.) Research Handbook on the WTO Agriculture Agreement. Research Handbooks on the WTO (pp. 70-103). Cheltenham,UK+Northampton, MA,USA: Edward Elgar
Full text not available from this repository.The global food crisis of 2007–08 seems to be forgotten. Media attention at the time focused on food riots in Haiti and Mozambique, while world leaders and more than a dozen international organizations gathered for several food summits, calling for immediate relief measures. But not a single government seems to remember its obligations under the Right to Food (R2F) which the United Nations (UN) had enshrined back in 1948. Today we have to acknowledge that the R2F still lacks an adequate response under the present multilateral rules and disciplines applying to food production and trade. This chapter examines the present rules and disciplines under the AoA and of those contemplated in the Doha Development Round. Here we find that despite claims to the contrary they contribute precious little to the R2F. Some of the present rules, or the lack thereof, can even act as disincentives for global and national food security. Various forms of production and export subsidies, food aid abuse and export restrictions, are still WTO-legal, with few remedies available to food insecure developing countries. This amounts to a violation of their R2F obligations by many WTO Members.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > NCCR International Trade Regulation |
UniBE Contributor: |
Häberli, Christian Martin |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation |
ISBN: |
978 1 84844 116 3 |
Series: |
Research Handbooks on the WTO |
Publisher: |
Edward Elgar |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Christian Häberli |
Date Deposited: |
22 Jul 2014 13:48 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:36 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/54559 |
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