Food Crises and the WTO

1. Introduction: food crises and the WTO Bariş Karapinar; Part I. Economics of the Food Crisis: 2. The food price crisis, poverty and agricultural trade policy Will Martin and Maros Ivanic; 3. Globalisation of agriculture and food crises: then and now Eugenio Díaz Bonilla; 4. Solving the food crisis in Africa: achieving an African green revolution Akin Adesina; 5. Rising food prices: causes, consequences and policy responses Wayne Jones and Armelle Elasri; 6. Shift and swing factors and the special role of weather and climate Josef Schmidhuber and Ira Matuschke; Part II. Trade and Law: WTO and Beyond: 7. Agricultural policies: past, present and prospective under Doha Kym Anderson; 8. The food crisis and the role of the EC's common agricultural policy Bernard O'Connor; 9. WTO disciplines and economic dimensions of the 2008 US Farm Bill David Orden; 10. Impact of the food crisis on developing countries and implications for agricultural trade policy Michael Herrmann and Ralf H. Peters; 11. Responses by the international trade and aid community to food security Susan Prowse; 12. Food security and WTO rules Christian Häberli; 13. Conclusions and policy recommendations Bariş Karapinar and Christian Häberli.