The Doha 'Development' Round of trade negotiations at the WTO has featured agricultural trade liberalization as one of its key aims. But developing countries were frustrated with both the process and the content of the agricultural agreement negotiations early on in the Round. This prompted...

We evaluate the effects of the rise of common ownership in the U.S. seed sector. Using a theoretical model, we illustrate how common ownership changes the nature of competition among firms. Our empirical analysis shows that, even when taking measures to fully separate the effects of market...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic impacts to the global economy that are unprecedented in scale and scope. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal economic functioning, but the 2019 IPBES Global Assessment indicated that business as usual was...