Trade and hunger

In the discussion on liberalisation of the agricultural sector - through the WTO Agreement of Agriculture and the World Bank and IMF structural adjustment programmes – many NGOs strongly stress the point that there is a need to assess the actual impact the liberalisation has had so far on food security, poverty, ecological sustainability, gender etc. There are already a number of impact assessments on agriculture and trade made by various NGOs and UN agencies, small case studies as well as broader impact studies. To facilitate use of this information already available, the Swedish NGOs Diakonia, Forum Syd, Lutherhjälpen and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation asked John Madeley to track and gather as many as possible of recent relevant case studies by NGOs and related institutions (universities, UN-agencies) on the impact of trade liberalisation on food security.