| Backgrounder No. 1 in the THREAD series | |
| Planting the Rights Seed: A human rights perspective on agriculture trade and the WTO |
| This Backgrounder examines the global agriculture system from a human rights perspective. It explores the link between the rural sector agricultural trade and the realization of human rights. In so doing it highlights the limitations of the agriculture trade liberalization agenda that currently dominates policy-making including in the World Trade Organization (WTO). This Backgrounder suggests ways to approach the global agricultural trading system with a view to making it more responsive to human needs. Human rights law provides tools that can help define an agriculture system that guarantees human rights for all. Human rights are particularly relevant because most States including all WTO Members have ratified at least one of the international human rights instruments thereby committing themselves to the realization of human rights. |
Auteur: Smaller C.
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Publisher: Trade Human Rights Equitable Economy (3D) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IAP) Année: 2005
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| Mot clef: Policy , Stratégies . |
| Catégorie de document: Document de base | Langue: Anglais |