Food & Beverage News

John Deep Ford, Former Ambassador of Guyana to the World Trade Organization , reflected on the extent to which trade-distorting support in agriculture contributed to food insecurity. Artificially cheaper subsidised merchandise have often had negative impacts on other countries’ markets. For instance, a variety of African grain producers have lost their regional markets as a end result of sponsored imports, as have many fruit producers in Latin America and the Caribbean and milk producers around the globe. Ambassador Ford also supplied throughts on which kind of rules could be agreed in WTO agricultural negotiations to higher safe food for the …