A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production will have to increase by 70 percent in 2050 to keep up with a global population that is projected to grow from 6 billion to 9 billion. There has...

Die Staats- und Regierungschefs hatten beim G8-Gipfel am 16./17. Juli 2006 in St. Petersburg vereinbart, bis Mitte August die Einigung über die Eckpunkte der Marktöffnung im Agrar- und Industriegüterhandel nachzuholen. Dennoch wurden die Verhandlungen im Rahmen der "Doha Development Agenda"...

As the Doha negotiations are at a dead end, this paper takes a step back to address the future direction of WTO disciplines in agriculture. It puts members' negotiating positions and the draft modalities with their ever growing list of exceptions aside to focus on three fundamental questions....