WTO in Crisis;
Groups Offer Alternative Plan to Protect People’s Food Sovereignty
Halt Agriculture Negotiations in the WTO!
Protect People’s Food Sovereignty!
Creating Crisis
The governments of both developed and developing countries face the choice of sacrificing the rights of the majority of their populations to food sovereignty and decent employment in return for increased corporate access to international markets. As agriculture negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) continue, government negotiators are being pressured to cede the ability of local and national governments to democratically establish their own policies to feed their people and support their farmers in return for increased access to international markets for their main exporters.
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