The WTO and the World Food System: A Trade Union Approach
Title:
The WTO and the World Food System: A Trade Union Approach
Author:
IUF
Date Published:
May 3, 2002
Source:
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)
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Abstract:
The current vision of "global agriculture" fails to recognize the social and environmental crises which are built into the current world food system and their enormous cost in human lives. Significantly, the rights and livelihood of the millions of agricultural and food processing workers, subsistence farmers and the marginalized/small farmers on whose labor this entire system is based are ignored altogether. This ariticle proposes the labor movement meet the challenge of building a long-term, comprehensive stategy to ensure that the world food system guarantees the right of all to adequate, safe and nutritious food whild protecting and advancing the rights and livelihood of workers engaged in food production.
This ariticle is also available in Spanish and French.
