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Trade, Development and Migration

Among the most difficult regulatory challenges in the multilateral trading system are the large divergences between rich and poor countries and the conceptual fragmentations they create. Trade is intrinsically linked to development; in turn, both trade and development influence the volume, diversity and speed of migratory flows. The trade agenda today insufficiently reflects the unequal distribution of production factors, capital and labour. Addressing such asymmetries requires a look beyond the existing WTO framework and into the interface of trade, bilateral investment, commodity and migration agreements and preferential schemes. By linking trade in agriculture and the transboundary movement of persons, we seek to make a contribution to coherence between two inherently related issue areas, as migratory pressures often result from inadequate agricultural structures and the lack of food security in developing countries.

Leadership:

panizzon_m

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Cluster 1

Food security is arguably the most important human need – and one of the most blatant global governance problems. We focus on the question under what regulatory conditions trade and in-vestment allow food to flow where and when it is needed, so as to ensure the Right to Food as enshrined in international, ratified UN treaties and many national constitutions.

Leadership:

häberli_c

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4.1.1

Food security: assessing tools in trade and in ...

While food security as an objective is contested by no ...

4.1.2

Food security as a human right

This project conceptually explores the normative impact ...

4.1.3

Food Security in Swiss Constitutional Law

This project examines food security as one of three obj ...

Cluster 2

This cluster explores the possibilities offered and challenges posed by international labour mobil-ity and the need to meet them with multilevel responses by involving multiple stakeholders in countries of origin and destination. Two recent venues of international migration governance are explored: the inclusion of migration related clauses in bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements and informal transgovernmental networks linking public officials dealing with international mi-gration in the destination, transit and source countries of migrants.

Leadership:

lavenex_s

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