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“Getting into a bind”: How trade and investment regime blocks the development of Agroecology and access to land

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Title of document: "Getting into a bind": How trade and investment regime blocks the development of Agroecology and access to land

Authors: Nathalia Carrau and Martin Drago

Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: Friends of the Earth

Year of publication: October 2016

Geographic focus: Worldwide

Summary: There are multiple unregistered impacts, which are made invisible or inadequately reported, that prove the agribusiness led agrifood system is deeply unfair in many ways and fails to deliver a solution for the inter connected global crises of hunger, poverty and environmental destruction – crises that urgently need to be addressed by international governance spaces. This paper argues that the current trade and investment framework promotes agribusiness and in fact aggravates its impacts because, it also blocks the development of agroecology and food sovereignty. The negative impacts of the prevailing trade and investment model, such as increasing hunger and poverty, are not measured or addressed because the hegemonic theoretical, conceptual and symbolic framework is dominated by the rationale of the capitalist system that gives value to food and farming based strictly on its economic profitability. This paper aims to contrast the logic and rationale behind investing in agribusiness vs investing in agroecology.