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Author (s):

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Date:

2006

Publication (if applicable):

N/A

Abstract (if Available):

From 1999 to 2002, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization undertook a series of 23 country case studies to evaluate the impact of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) on agricultural trade and food security in developing countries. It became clear that in order to make a realistic assessment of the impact of trade-related policy reforms on food security, it was necessary to extend the analysis over a period that included the implementation of substantial unilateral reforms. It was in this context that FAO launched in 2002 a further series of 15 country case studies on the experience more broadly with trade-related reforms and food security. The coverage included countries at different states of development with the main focus on low-income countries that are likely to be at greater risk of food insecurity. The purpose of this analysis was forward looking: to draw lessons from past policy reform processes at the country level in order to inform future national and multilateral policy reform efforts about likely implications for food security. This document is a compilation of existing relevant literature on trade and food security developments, including assessments of the outcome of past policies on national and household food security, e.g. trade liberalization and related economic reforms, meant to establish a context for these case studies and to review alternative methodological approaches and conceptual frameworks for investigating the relationship between trade and food security

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