Agricultural international trade and food security: the contribution of a post-exceptionalist regime to ensure the institutional resilience of the WTO
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https://doi.org/10.12957/rmi.2024.81320Keywords:
Agriculture, Protectionism, TradeAbstract
Governmental support for the agricultural sector has been a nearly constant experience among developed countries that lead in food exports. The notion of an exceptionalist paradigm for this sector legitimized practices that led to the exclusion of agricultural liberalization from the founding text of the GATT. Following the Uruguay Round, the introduction of an Agreement on Agriculture, initially not highly restrictive to the protectionism of major powers, solidified a new normative paradigm emphasizing market forces aligned with neoliberal guidelines. Thus, conducting a case study on the agricultural agenda in the multilateral trading system corroborated Daugbjerg and Feindt's (2017) thesis on the resilience potential of post-exceptionalist regimes. This article argues that this configuration helped to ensure the longevity and functionality of the WTO's agricultural text, even amidst the impasses of the Doha Round.
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