Trade policies and food security: Essays from IFPRI's 2002-2003 Annual Report
Globalization could and should benefit developing countries. But unlike a rising tide that lifts all boats, large and small, globalization is unequal. It has fallen far short of its much-ballyhooed potential to help the world’s poorest people out of poverty. Instead, a combination of policies in bot...
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| description | Globalization could and should benefit developing countries. But unlike a rising tide that lifts all boats, large and small, globalization is unequal. It has fallen far short of its much-ballyhooed potential to help the world’s poorest people out of poverty. Instead, a combination of policies in both rich and poor countries creates conditions for the rich to prosper and many of the poor to fall more deeply into destitution. Agricultural protectionism in rich countries enables them to skew markets in their favor. Tariffs and trade barriers routinely exclude developing-country products. Other non-tariff barriers, such as non-transparent phytosanitary regulations, present additional impediments to poor farmers seeking to enter the global marketplace. Instead of distorting the marketplace, rich nations must pay more than lip service to the ideal of free and fair trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the arena to do so internationally. Public policies in developing countries also harm poor farmers and producers, who often lack the basic conditions for prosperity: health, education, land, capital, information, and the marketing infrastructure needed to take advantage of export opportunities. Developing-country governments can and must change domestic policies on markets, land tenure, research and extension, and credit to enable smallholder farmers to compete. The two feature essays in this year’s annual report examine who must do what in order for agricultural globalization to work for the poor. Unilateral measures by one side or the other will help. But only concerted effort by both developed- and developing-country governments and institutions to change trade rules, regulations, and practices will enable the very poor to feed their families and live a better life. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1558202025-02-24T06:47:20Z Trade policies and food security: Essays from IFPRI's 2002-2003 Annual Report Watkins, Kevin von Braun, Joachim Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio Gulati, Ashok globalization tariffs trade protection land tenure developing countries trade barriers trade liberalization wto farmers extension credit policies food security Globalization could and should benefit developing countries. But unlike a rising tide that lifts all boats, large and small, globalization is unequal. It has fallen far short of its much-ballyhooed potential to help the world’s poorest people out of poverty. Instead, a combination of policies in both rich and poor countries creates conditions for the rich to prosper and many of the poor to fall more deeply into destitution. Agricultural protectionism in rich countries enables them to skew markets in their favor. Tariffs and trade barriers routinely exclude developing-country products. Other non-tariff barriers, such as non-transparent phytosanitary regulations, present additional impediments to poor farmers seeking to enter the global marketplace. Instead of distorting the marketplace, rich nations must pay more than lip service to the ideal of free and fair trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the arena to do so internationally. Public policies in developing countries also harm poor farmers and producers, who often lack the basic conditions for prosperity: health, education, land, capital, information, and the marketing infrastructure needed to take advantage of export opportunities. Developing-country governments can and must change domestic policies on markets, land tenure, research and extension, and credit to enable smallholder farmers to compete. The two feature essays in this year’s annual report examine who must do what in order for agricultural globalization to work for the poor. Unilateral measures by one side or the other will help. But only concerted effort by both developed- and developing-country governments and institutions to change trade rules, regulations, and practices will enable the very poor to feed their families and live a better life. 2003 2024-10-24T12:42:37Z 2024-10-24T12:42:37Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155820 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155698 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Watkins, Kevin; von Braun, Joachim; Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Gulati, Ashok. 2003. Trade policies and food security: Essays from IFPRI's 2002-2003 Annual Report. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155820 |
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| title | Trade policies and food security: Essays from IFPRI's 2002-2003 Annual Report |
| title_full | Trade policies and food security: Essays from IFPRI's 2002-2003 Annual Report |
| title_fullStr | Trade policies and food security: Essays from IFPRI's 2002-2003 Annual Report |
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| title_short | Trade policies and food security: Essays from IFPRI's 2002-2003 Annual Report |
| title_sort | trade policies and food security essays from ifpri s 2002 2003 annual report |
| topic | globalization tariffs trade protection land tenure developing countries trade barriers trade liberalization wto farmers extension credit policies food security |
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