Food crises and the WTO
Subtitle: World Trade Forum
By: [edited by] Baris Karapinar, Christian Haberli
Contributors: World Trade Forum (12th : 2008 : Bern, Switzerland)
Series: world trade forum; World Trade Forum (Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780521191067
Subjects: International cooperation; World Trade Organization; Security measures; Food supply
Notes: Based on papers presented at the 12th World Trade Forum, held on 26 and 27 September 2008 at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: food crises and the WTO  -- Baris Karapinar; title: Food price crisis, poverty and agricultural trade policy  -- Will Martin and Maros Ivanic; title: Globalisation of agriculture and food crises : then and now  -- Eugenio Di as-Bonilla; title: Solving the food crisis in Africa : achieving an African Green Revolution  -- Akinwumi A. Adesina; title: Rising food prices : causes, consequences and policy responses  -- Wayne Jones and Armelle Elasri; title: Shift and swing factors and the special role of weather and climate  -- Josef Schmidhuber and Ira Matuschke; title: Agricultural policies : past, present and prospective under Doha  -- Kym Anderson; title: Food crisis and the role of the EC's Common Agricultural Policy  -- Bernard O'Connor; title: WTO disciplines and economic dimensions of the 2008 US Farm Bill  -- David Orden; title: Impact of the food crisis on developing countries and implications for agricultural trade policy  -- Michael Herrmann and Ralf H. Peters; title: Responses by the international trade and aid community to food security  -- Susan Prowse; title: Food security and WTO rules  -- Christian Ha berli; title: Conclusions and policy recommendations -- Baris Karapinar and Christian Ha berli.