PHM-Exch> Obama's Trade Policy and Global Food Security - New IATP paper

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ellen Shaffer <ershaffer at cpath.org>
From: David Wallinga <dWallinga at iatp.org>

*Making U.S. Trade Policy Serve Global Food Security Goals – New IATP Paper*

(January 25, 2011) - During tonight's state-of-the-union address, President
Barack Obama is expected to tout an expanded trade liberalization agenda as
part of his plan to generate more U.S. jobs. But does this push to open up
markets square with the Administration's plan to address global food
security? President Obama’s Feed the Future
<http://www.feedthefuture.gov/>initiative promotes ending global
hunger by bolstering food production by
small-scale farmers—especially women, through programs led by developing
countries. While the U.S. development agenda emphasizes increasing local
food production in developing countries, the Administration’s trade agenda
pushes in the opposite direction, aiming to double U.S. exports in the next
five years.

In a new paper<http://www.iatp.org/iatp/publications.cfm?accountID=451&refID=107901>,
IATP’s Karen Hansen-Kuhn documents how the Obama Administration’s
agricultural trade policy is very much a continuation of past
policies—policies that have undermined small-scale farmers and global food
security. The paper identifies much needed reforms in U.S. trade policy to
recognize current challenges associated with food security and climate
disruptions. You can read the full paper
here<http://www.iatp.org/iatp/publications.cfm?accountID=451&refID=107901>
and
at http://www.iatp.org.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phm.phmovement.org/pipermail/phm-exchange-phmovement.org/attachments/20110125/b584e33e/attachment.html>