Contestation and Collaboration in the International Food Security Debate

This Working Paper argues that relations between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) follow patterns that are consonant with the concept of contested multilateralism. It contends that the regimes interact in a way that both contest and collaborate. The paper focuses on how the WTO and the FAO handled the introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into the food security discourse, and how GMOs can serve to demonstrate a trend to contestation and collaboration between the two regimes.

To access the full paper: Contestation and Collaboration in the International Food Security Debate regarding GMOs. A Regime Analysis of the WTO and the FAO (PDF)