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For years, farmers’ organizations and social movements such as La Vía Campesina have been able to keep agriculture out of WTO negotiations through lobbying and protest. A central goal of TPP negotiations is to circumvent the WTO deadlock and take agricultural liberalization even further. As Karen Hansen-Kuhn of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) notes, if implemented, the TPP “would expand protections for investors over consumers and farmers, and severely restrict governments’ ability to use public policy to reshape food systems.”17 The TPP not only brings agriculture back in to multilateral trade negotiations, it does so with a vengeance. foodfirst.org/en/Trans-Pacific+Partnership
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:43:31 +0000

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