At Ministerial Conference, WTO faces litmus test on food security issue

Global food insecurity has reached troubling dimensions, with the variety of severely food-insecure individuals having doubled to 276 million through the previous two years. Despite making all the proper noises, the World Trade Organization (WTO) members have didn’t stroll the discuss as evident in divergent positions on food security.

In the upcoming twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC-12), greater than 80 creating international locations together with least developed nation (LDC) members have been demanding a everlasting resolution to the issue of public stockholding (PSH) programmes for food security functions. However, their demand is nearly rejected by a couple of international locations with robust business curiosity in agriculture exports. Perhaps these international locations concern a pointy dip of their exports to creating international locations, if the latter begin implementing strong public stockholding schemes.

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