ABSTRACT
The current food crisis has emerged from a past of thoughtless domestic policies coupled with an inequitable international situation. A discriminatory framework at the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues to block attempts by developing countries to make agriculture and food production more viable at home. The new ‘Buy America’ policy promises greater protectionism in one of the largest trading countries in the world and threatens further distortion in global trade. Along with the emergence of climate change and global warming, the US-led biofuel fad and genetic engineering in agriculture have raised new and more immediate challenges for agriculture and food production in India and other developing countries.
