Food Can’t Be Traded: Civil Society’s Discursive Power in the Context of Agricultural Liberalisation in India

Camille Parguel () and Jean-Christophe Graz
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Camille Parguel: Department of Social Sciences, Carlos III University of Madrid
Jean-Christophe Graz: Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne

Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Working Paper from Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India

Abstract: Bilateral and regional free trade agreements increasingly substitute for the World Trade Organization in trade negotiations. Accordingly, civil society organisations opposed to trade liberalisation target this new generation of trade agreements as well. This paper examines the case of activists concerned about agricultural and food issues in India who raised their voice against the Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), negotiated by India with the European Union and Asian and Oceanian countries, respectively.

Keywords: civil society actors; discourse; food security; free trade agreements; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 84 page
Date: 2021-08
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