A landmark achievement of the Uruguay Round, and notably, the Agreement on Agriculture, was the full inclusion of agriculture in multilateral rules and disciplines. Since the birth of World Trade Organization (WTO), a significant number of member countries have used the dispute settlement...

The challenges to meeting the growing global food demand — population and income growth and supply uncertainties complicated by climate change, environmental pressures, and water scarcity — all point to the increasing importance of trade and the need for a more, not less, open trading...