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Farmers are struggling with skyrocketing fuel and fertilizer costs and labour shortages while international trade restrictions have become another headwind since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Against this backdrop, a leading food expert says the World Trade Organization (WTO), while limited in its effectiveness, has a key role to play in ensuring free and fair trade in agricultural products.
Sylvain Charlebois, senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax, told The Epoch Times that “countries are starting to panic … and so there’s been some protectionism going on” due to the war in Ukraine, which NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says may last for years….