The future of the global agri-food trade and the WTO

Piñeiro, Valeria; and Piñeiro, Martín. 2017. The future of the global agri-food trade and the WTO. In Agricultural trade interests and challenges at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires: A Southern Cone perspective. Piñeiro, Valeria and Piñeiro, Martín (Eds.). Pp. 9-16. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) et al.: San Jose, Costa Rica.

In recent years, the international trade context has seen, as a consequence of political changes, social unrest and violence, increased uncertainty and instability. Two main trends, one economic and one political, have affected the economic and political environment in which the evolution of the global trading system has been taking place.