ABSTRACT
Agricultural trade barriers primarily pertain to cereals, meat and dairy products. Prices of grain fluctuate considerably from changes in climatic conditions, market responses and government policies. Freer trade also opens up new potentials to strong agricultural corporations. In the 1980s, the free market US farm policies lowered the price support to its small producers. A vision of agriculture must relate to both political and geographical factors, calling for specifications. One global vision will be complicated, although it might envisage peace, health and food for all with an absolute minimum of poor and starving people by 2050. Food safety will have become even more important to people, leading to a situation where many consumers wish to put on their tables what was produced in the neighbourhood and with transparency. This will have led to a “marriage” between organic or ecological farming and conventional farming.
