IPCPolicy Areas

Food Security

A free flow of food and agricultural goods is an important factor for global food security, but the food and agricultural sector remains among the world’s most distorted economic sectors. 

An open and rules-based trade system mitigates extreme volatility and contributes to global food security. Food and agricultural trade liberalization can be achieved through trade agreements and sound regional and domestic policies.

Relate Publications

• Doha and Beyond: Continuing the Reform of the International Trade System for Food and Agricultural Products

  June 2011 (Position Paper)

• Biofuels and Food Security: Time to Consider Safety Valves?

February 2011 (Policy Focus)

• Biofuel and Biomass Subsidies and WTO Rules

September 2010 (Policy Focus)

• The Doha Round and Alternative Options for Creating a Fair and Market-Oriented Agricultural Trade System

          November 2009 (Position Paper)

• The Doha Round and Alternative Options for Creating a Fair and Market-Oriented Agricultural Trade System

          November 2009 (Policy Focus)

• The Treatment of Agriculture in Regional Trade Agreements in the Americas

           October 2009 (Issue Brief)

• Food Security: The Role of Agricultural Trade

June 2009 (Discussion Paper)

• Agricultural Export Restrictions: Welfare Implications and Trade Disciplines

          January 2009 (Position Paper)

• An Examination of Social Standards in Biofuels Sustainability Criteria 
  December 2008 (Discussion Paper)

• Implications for Brazil of the July 2008 Draft Agricultural Modalities

          September 2008 (Collaboration with ICTSD and IFPRI) (Policy Focus)

• The Domestic Impact of Export Restrictions: The Case of Argentina

          July 2008 (Position Paper)

• Reconciling Food Safety with Import Facilitation Objectives: Helping Developing Country Producers Meet U.S. and EU Food Requirements Through Transatlantic Cooperation

          June 2008 (Position Paper)

• An Overview Assessment of the Revised Draft WTO Modalities for Agriculture

  June 2008 (Collaboration with ICTSD and IFPRI) (Policy Focus)

• Implications for the United States of the May 2008 Draft Agricultural Modalities

          June 2008 (Collaboration with ICTSD and IFPRI) (Policy Focus)

• Implications for the European Union of the May 2008 Draft Agricultural Modalities

June 2008 (Collaboration with ICTSD and IFPRI) (Policy Focus)

• Implications for India of the May 2008 Draft Agricultural Modalities

June 2008 (Collaboration with ICTSD and IFPRI) (Policy Focus)

• An Examination of U.S. and EU Government Support to Biofuels: Early Lessons 
  October 2007 (Issue Brief)
• The 2007 US Farm Bill: Implications for Developing Countries 
  September 2007 (Issue Brief)
• Between Safety and Commerce: How Sanitary Measures Affect Global Dairy Trade 
  July 2007 (Issue Brief)

• US Farm Policy and the White Commodities: Cotton, Rice, Sugar and Milk
  June 2007 (Policy Focus)
• US Food Aid Policy and the Farm Bill
  May 2007 (Policy Focus)
• Energy and the Farm Bill
  April 2007 (Policy Focus)
• Should the Green Box be Modified?
  April 2007 (Policy Focus)
• US Farm Bill Subsidies and World Commodity Markets
  April 2007 (Policy Focus)
• Should the Green Box be Modified?
  March 2007 (Discussion Paper)
• The Farm Bill, Doha, the Budget (and Ethanol!)
  March 2007 (Policy Focus)

• Biofuels: Promises and Constraints
  December 2006 (Discussion Paper)
• WTO Disciplines and Biofuels: Opportunities and Constraints in the Creation of a Global Marketplace
  October 2006 (Discussion Paper)
• Options for the WTO Modalities for Agriculture
  May 2006 (Discussion Paper)

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