Food is different why we must get the WTO out of agriculture /

• Main Author: Rosset, Peter.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., 2006.
• Series: Global issues series (Zed Books)
• Subjects: World Trade Organization.; Organisation mondiale du commerce.; Produce trade > Government policy.; Agriculture and state.; Produce trade.; Agricultural systems.; Agriculture.; Food supply.; Produits agricoles > Commerce > Politique gouvernementale.; Politique agricole.; Produits agricoles > Commerce.; Systèmes agricoles.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing. > International; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Trade & Tariffs. > International Relations; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General. > International; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.; Agrarwelthandel.; Alternative.; Freihandel.; Electronic books.
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In this book, global food and farming researcher-activist Peter Rosset explains how the runaway free trade policies and neoliberal economics of the WTO, American government and European Union kill farmers, and give us a food system that nobody outside of a small corporate elite wants.

Table of Contents:

• Cover; About the author; Table of Contents; Tables, Figures and Boxes; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Prologue by Lee Kyung Hae; Foreword by George Naylor; Introduction; 1 Trade Negotiations and Trade Liberalization; 2 Key Issues, Misconceptions, Disagreements and Alternative Paradigms; 3 Dumping and Subsidies: Unraveling the Confusion; 4 The Impacts of Liberalized Agricultural Trade; 5 Alternatives for a Different Agriculture and Food System; Conclusion: Another Food System is Possible; Special Topics; Notes; Bibliography; Index.