Food security policy

Support of smallholder farmers in the name of adequate food as a human right but focus on global scale and not necessarily national

Article 104 stipulates that they have three multifunctional objectives:

• Contributions to food security
• Sustainable and market oriented production/ landscape management
• Decentralised settlement
• [Comments: Nature, multiple policy objectives and the lack of competition reduce productivity and thus swiss food security and they increase consumer prices, food security is not attainable even with closed borders, and would be cheaper with more imports **pg4]

Article 102 Economic Supply policies: Government mandated but privately owned stockpiles ensure food supplies for 6 months in times of disruptions [State to hold food worth 6 months as reserves]

Article 101 Foreign Economic Policy: Trade agreements with developing countries provide very limited concessions for agricultural products

Food Sovereignty as a concept added to the Swiss Agricultural Law in 2013 [1]

 

[1] http://www.nccr-trade.org/fileadmin/user_upload/nccr-trade.ch/wp5/NCCR_working_paper_201423.pdf