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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9891

29 April 2009
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
According to UN report, total freeing up of world agricultural trade would compromise poor countries' “right to food”

Two demands. Is the increasing liberalisation of international trade in agriculture compatible with the right to food as recognised by the UN? One of the documents drafted by Olivier De Schutter, the UN's special rapporteur on the Right to Food (see this column yesterday) focuses on this question. De Schutter's document is the result of a mission made to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva and includes several interviews with ambassadors from WTO-member states which are currently...

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