David Laborde Debucquet BOOK LAUNCH "Agriculture, Development, and the Global Trading System: 2000-2015" SEP 7, 2017 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT

2. Globalization has also included
Agricultural Markets
12.3%
13.9%
16.1%
18.2%
19.1%
1975 1985 1995 2005 2015
Worldwide share of produced calories crossing an
international border before final consumption (%)

3. Why trade is beneficial?
 Scarcity of nature
 Better use of resources globally
 Flows of goods
 Flows of technology
 Flows of capital
 Through markets and public interventions

4. Is Free Trade a popular idea?
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0.000100%
0.000200%
0.000300%
0.000400%
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0.000800%
0.000900%
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Word Frequency of
"Free Trade“ in global writings
Source: Google (2016).

5. General Feeling…
 Has fallen from 35% to 10% in 30
years

6. ….And specific doubts
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2017/02/imported-food-sickens-more-americans-than-
ever/#.Wa7-gbKGPRZ
19% of food consumed in the
United States is imported
5% of all foodborne disease
outbreaks

7. Address the issues, lot at stakes
 Cooperation through disciplines
 Government and their constituency
 Political economy within and between countries
 The value of well organized, healthy trading system, but in a changing world

8. 13 Chapters
 What can the Doha Development Agenda Deliver, and how
can it fail?
 The dynamics, intricacies of negotiations but what we should
learn for future round of negotiations
 Role of emerging economies but also keep issues for the most
vulnerable ones: cotton
 Successful and Failed trade instruments for Managing Price
volatility