Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos and Martin Piñeiro BOOK LAUNCH The Road Towards the WTO MC12: A Latin America and the Caribbean Perspective Co-Organized by IFPRI and Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) OCT 27, 2021 - 12:00 PM TO 01:00 PM EDT

1. THE ROAD TO THE WTO TWELFTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective
Book Summary
October 27, 2021
Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos and Martin Piñeiro

2. Landscape of the diets affordability before Covid-19
Before COVID-
19, more than
3 billion
people could not
afford a
healthy diet
Population Share
who could not afford
a healthy diet
Source: SOFI 2020

3. Produced calories per capita and share of
internationally traded calories
Source: D. Laborde. et al forthcoming
0.0%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Share
of
internatioanlly
traded
calories
Produced
Calories
per
Capita
World
Produced_Calories_PerCapita Share_Exports

5. Five disruptive events in particular have seriously
affected the international context:
Deterioration of the global economy
Growing disenchantment towards multilateralism in general and multilateral trade in
particular
U.S and China trade tensions
The multilateral trading system has come under attacks and being discredited
The Covid-19 will likely have structural impacts on economic and trade matters

6. Within this context of change and uncertainty, three main
challenges related to agricultural and food trade emerge:
Reexamining traditional agricultural trade issues such as domestic
support and market access with the context of a new world order.
Identifying key elements and themes that can define the new roles,
functions and institutional organization of the WTO
Identification of new themes that are becoming globally prominent as a
consequence of the new environmental and nutritional dimensions of
food systems

7. Topics discussed at the WTO
Agricultural Committee going into the
MC12
Domestic support - market access - export competition - export restrictions -
cotton - special safeguard mechanism - public stockholding for food security
purposes

8. • Domestic support
• Export taxes and restrictions
• Market access
• Public stockholdings, Special
Safeguard Mechanism and
State Trading Enterprises

9. Other topics relevant for Agriculture and
the WTO
Plurilateral agreements– harmonization of sustainability standards –
transparency - the WTO Dispute Settlement system -

10. First type: Plurilateral agreements under the
WTO

11. Second type: related to the new environmental,
nutritional and human health concerns
• Impacts of agricultural
producer support on climate
and nutrition outcomes
• Harmonization of sustainability
standards under the WTO
framework
• Create an intersection of trade
and environment

12. Looking forward…..

13. Thank you
For more information
Contact: v.pineiro@cgiar.org