The WTO, Agriculture and Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9781874719458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 364 str.

Opis

Despite the Doha declaration of November 2001, the failure to start a new round of global trade negotiations at Seattle in December 1999 and the hostility of protesters to the trade liberalisation process and growing global economic and social disparities was a wake-up call for the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The ambitious goal of this ground-breaking book is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of liberalised world trade, in particular in the agricultural sector, and to investigate to what extent the current WTO agreements provide the necessary fail-safe devices to react to trade-related negative impacts on sustainability, environmental protection and food security. The background and interrelationship between the WTO, the tenets of sustainable development and the unique features of the agriculture and forestry sectors are explored, and conclusions regarding the deficits of the world trade system and its conflicts with basic societal goals - such as sustainability - are drawn.

Recenzje

The real worth is in its snapshot of current academic thinking ... [a] slice of the leading edge thinking of sustainable agricultural movement within the academic and no-profit making community, globally. - The Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Spis treści

Introduction Heinrich Wohlmeyer  1. Preliminary issues and basic considerations Heinrich Wohlmeyer   Section 1: The current performance of the world trade system and the World Trade Organisation2. The present legal basis of the world trade system Richard Senti  3. The agreement on technical barriers to trade and basic aspects of the agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures Katrin Forgo  4. The producer support estimate and the aggregate measure of support: suitable gauges for evaluating agricultural and trade policy? Heinrich Wohlmeyer   Section 2: The theory of international trade5. A few remarks on trade theory Franz Weiss  6. Free trade and its effects: some critical comments Sigrid Stagl   Section 3: International trade: agricultural and environmental aspects7. International trade on the rise: a brief introduction Sigrid Stagl and Tobias Reichert  8. Sustainability: a challenge for future economic and social policy Theodor Quendler and Bernd Schuh  9. Agriculture, trade and the environment Franz Weiss  10. The special case of agriculture Bernd Schuh  11. Reasons for measures aimed at the stabilisation of production and markets in the agricultural sector Theodor Quendler  12. Important factors influencing future scenarios regarding food supplies, world population and environment Theodor Quendler  13. Environmental issues and their significance for agriculture and the food industry Theodor Quendler and Tobias Reichert   Section 4: Theoretical propositions for harmonising sustainable agriculture and free trade14. Analysis of current developments in international agricultural trade Tobias Reichert  15. The World Trade Organisation and Agenda 2000 Heinrich Wohlmeyer  16. Solutions within the existing theoretical framework: environmental and trade policy measures Bernd Schuh  17. Ecological economics as a new integrative approach Sigrid Stagl  18. Conclusions and proposals for solutions Theodor Quendler, Franz Weiss and Heinrich Wohlmeyer 19. Final remarks Heinrich Wohlmeyer

O autorze

Heinrich Wohlmeyer, Theodor Quendler