The WTO, Agriculture and Sustainable Development

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

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Heinrich Wohlmeyer, Theodor Quendler

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Identifies the strengths and weaknesses of liberalized world trade, in particular in the agricultural sector, and investigates to which extent the current WTO agreements provide the devices to react to trade-related negative impacts on sustainability, environmental protection and food security.

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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