Bashar Malkawi, WTO Chair Booklet Workshop on Trade WTO and Food Security
Nowadays food security has become more than ever before a worldwide concern particularly in the MENA region. Food security is explicitly mentioned in the preamble of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) as a non-trade concern that should be given consideration in trade negotiations along with protecting the environment and the possible negative effects of the implementation of the agreement (AoA) on the net food-importing developing countries. However during the last food crises (2007/2008 and 2010/2011), global food prices spiked in unprecedented way and world food markets were disrupted in such a way that many countries, scholars, and development institutions questioned the reliance on trade and world markets to solve developing countries food security issues.
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