WTO policies : how plant patents and trade policy threaten global food security

Abstract

The fifth WTO Cancun Ministerial has failed. But just prior to it, the United States and the European Union had arrived at a new accord, which in letter and spirit lays out a detailed road map for what can be called as the second phase of the great trade robbery. And after the breakdown of the talks, the US-EU continue to make empty promises of growth and development without making any effort towards a true and meaningful reform in their own domestic policies.