Food And Wine
15/11/2021John Deep Ford, Former Ambassador of Guyana to the World Trade Organization , mirrored on the extent to which trade-distorting help in agriculture contributed to food insecurity. Artificially cheaper subsidised products have often had adverse impacts on other countries’ markets. For occasion, a number of African grain producers have lost their regional markets as a result of subsidized imports, as have many fruit producers in Latin America and the Caribbean and milk producers around the globe. Ambassador Ford also supplied throughts on which type of guidelines could possibly be agreed in WTO agricultural negotiations to better secure food for the poorest. He careworn the want to agree on reducing product-specific home subsidies particularly on key food merchandise, in addition to increasing certainty on specific flexibilities for supporting small farmers (e.g. Article 6.2). Many growing WTO members are also calling for a Special Safeguard Mechanism, which might help ensure their farmers …