WTO members eye MC12 outcome on food security, but disagree on way forward

World Trade Organization negotiators are aiming to include some food security issues in the agriculture package trade ministers will have before them at the upcoming 12th ministerial conference, but WTO members have not yet been able to agree on what the food security portion should look like. Agriculture is one of the three main priorities for MC12, alongside securing an agreement on reining in harmful fisheries subsidies and putting together a holistic trade-related pandemic response. But Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala noted...