ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to understand the persistence of such predicaments in the Global South. It examines new initiatives to coordinate agricultural and social protection policies and programs that aim at helping poor famers in the developing world break the cycle of poverty. The issue of food security is thus increasingly connected with technological inventions and trade policies concerning intellectual property rights (IPR). There is evidence that agricultural policies that combine interventions in the form of access to credit and access to technology produce better long-term results in terms of lessening rural poverty. Reforming agricultural domestic support policies remained a crucial issue for developing countries at the 2015 Nairobi World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. Countries can refer to the Cartagena Protocol when restricting the use of genetically modified organisms in situations of scientific uncertainty with regard to potentially harmful ecological and health effects.
