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Agriculture, Trade Liberalization and Poverty in the ACP Countries

Agriculture, Trade Liberalization and Poverty in the ACP Countries

Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522573111|ISBN10: 1522573119|EISBN13: 9781522573128
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch072
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Rajack-Talley, Theresa Ann. "Agriculture, Trade Liberalization and Poverty in the ACP Countries." Socio-Economic Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 1408-1427. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch072

APA

Rajack-Talley, T. A. (2019). Agriculture, Trade Liberalization and Poverty in the ACP Countries. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Socio-Economic Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1408-1427). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch072

Chicago

Rajack-Talley, Theresa Ann. "Agriculture, Trade Liberalization and Poverty in the ACP Countries." In Socio-Economic Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1408-1427. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch072

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Abstract

This chapter looks specifically at the impact of the ACP agriculture trade agreements on issues of food production, food security and poverty and how they relate in some ways to each other. It is divided into four distinct but inter-related sections. First, poverty in the ACP regions is briefly described. Secondly, the importance of agriculture, particularly the role of small farming systems to economic growth, employment, food production, food security and poverty reduction in the ACP countries is examined. Thirdly, the impact of the acceleration of trade liberalization and agriculture protectionism on ACP countries is reviewed and analyzed. Here, the trade arrangements and networks in the three ACP regions are described and include international, regional and local agricultural trade and market agreements. Further, the paradoxes and dilemmas that emerge are interrogated and their outcomes discussed. Particular attention is paid to small producers and women. The fourth and final section of the chapter concludes that while the impact of agriculture trade liberalization remains a mixed bag of positive and negative possibilities, one thing that is clear is that while trade liberalization is promoted as a cure for food security and world poverty, the jury is still out on whether it has helped or hindered this endeavour. Trade policies and arrangements do substantially change the lives of people in developing countries, but in very complex ways. Recommendations are made to support the South-South initiatives of the ACP and others as well as enhance regional and domestic agriculture production and trade policies. The author, however, warns that agriculture and trade policies must be linked closer to food security and the healthy diets of local populations.

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