Reconciling Trade Liberalisation with Human Security Goals. By: Anagha Joshi

 3 pillars: market access, export subsidies and domestic support.  Two key impacts on food security: (1) increases rural poverty and inequality, (2) limits the range of available measures to promote food security.

 increase in food imports and decline in food production  greater focus on export production and cash crops rather than sustenance farming  increased rural unemployment and poverty  Landholdings concentrated in one group, with small farmers loosing title to their lands  food insecurity greatly increased.

 Effects of trade liberalisation policies: - loss of employment in rural communities - fish prices unaffordable for local communities - decline in quantity and quality of fish for local consumption - lack of access and control of the fishery by local communities (control shifted to urban enterprises). Result has been a gross food insecurity crisis.

 Strategies: - invest in market driven agriculture - increase economic growth through industrial development - strengthen the private sector as the driver of economic growth and promote transnational investment - engage large sectors of the population in the productive sector.