Free Trade or Food Security – Did India succeed at WTO Bali?

Devparna Roy; Florian Doerr

Free Trade or Food Security – Did India succeed at WTO Bali?

Devparna Roy Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA
Florian Doerr Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany

Keywords: Free Trade, World Trade Organization (WTO), Indian National Food Security Act

Abstract

In this article, we critically analyse the imbalanced outcomes of the WTO Bali conference and
briefly examine the evolution of India’s public food subsidy programme. We show that India did
not completely succeed at the Bali negotiations. The result of this “half-victory” is that the WTO
structurally continues to favour powerful nations from the North at the cost of food security for
millions of poor people living in the South.

Published

2019-06-27

How to Cite

Roy, D., & Doerr, F. (2019). Free Trade or Food Security – Did India succeed at WTO Bali?. Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society, 1(2), 91-94. Retrieved from http://thefutureoffoodjournal.com/index.php/FOFJ/article/view/219