Abstract
My interest in international trade was sparked over 30 years ago. In the early 1980s, representatives from nations around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to try to launch negotiations around a global trade agreement, but the conference stalled on agriculture. Nothing came of it, and it was widely regarded as a failure.
International trade creates an invaluable buffer against unforeseen food shortages. Yet can we overcome the tangled trade barriers blocking our path?
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All statistics in this section are drawn from Purdue University’s Global Trade Analysis Project data base (Aguiar et al., 2016).
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Hertel, T.W. (2018). Tangled Trade. In: Eise, J., Foster, K.A. (eds) How to Feed the World. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-885-5_8
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