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Food Security in the Great Lakes Region:

Food Security in the Great Lakes Region:. Reconciling T rade L iberalisation with Human S ecurity Goals. By: Anagha Joshi. Agreement on Agriculture and its impact on food security. 3 pillars: market access, export subsidies and domestic support.

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Food Security in the Great Lakes Region:

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  1. Food Security in the Great Lakes Region: Reconciling Trade Liberalisation with Human Security Goals. By: Anagha Joshi

  2. Agreement on Agriculture and its impact on food security • 3 pillars: market access, export subsidies and domestic support. • Two key impacts on food security: (1) increases rural poverty and inequality, (2) limits the range of available measures to promote food security.

  3. 1999 FAO study of impact of AoA on developing countries • increase in food imports and decline in food production • greater focus on export production and cash crops rather than sustenance farming • increased rural unemployment and poverty • Landholdings concentrated in one group, with small farmers loosing title to their lands • food insecurity greatly increased.

  4. Kenya Fishery Case Study • Effects of trade liberalisation policies: • loss of employment in rural communities • fish prices unaffordable for local communities • decline in quantity and quality of fish for local consumption • lack of access and control of the fishery by local communities (control shifted to urban enterprises). Result has been a gross food insecurity crisis.

  5. PoA: Econ. Dev. & Reg. Int. / Project on Food Security • Strategies: • invest in market driven agriculture • increase economic growth through industrial development • strengthen the private sector as the driver of economic growth and promote transnational investment • engage large sectors of the population in the productive sector.

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