Public stockholdings, special safeguard mechanism and state trading enterprises: What’s food security got to do with them?

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio. 2021. Public stockholdings, special safeguard mechanism and state trading enterprises: What’s food security got to do with them? In The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective, eds. Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos, and Martín Piñeiro. Topics discussed at the WTO agricultural committee going into the MC12, Pp. 81-95. San Jose, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134823.

Food security has been invoked for a variety of trade interventions and in many trade negotiations This chapter focuses on three trade topics for which food security concerns have been mentioned as the rationale (or at least part of it) for their inclusion in the WTO negotiations use: public stockholdings (PSH), the special safeguard mechanism (SSM) and state trading enterprises (STEs).