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    India and the agreement on agriculture : civil society and citizens' engagement

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    2007
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    Sharma, Shefali
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    This paper explores civil society advocacy on the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and how it influences the trade policy process and facilitates citizen engagement in the Indian context. It uses the concepts of actornetworks, discourse and spaces and strategies, to analyse the role five civil society organisation’s (CSO) actor-networks play in advocacy on agriculture and trade policy. The empirical cases suggest that CSO advocacy in India has an indirect impact on the state’s trade policy process. The cases also indicate that informed citizen engagement on global trade policies is challenging given the process of global trade policymaking and the nature of long-term grassroots mobilisation. Issues of representation and mediation, global-local discourses on economic policies, long-term versus short-term advocacy concerns and capacity constraints shape the extent to which direct citizen engagement can occur on the AoA. The paper concludes with some challenges that CSOs must confront in order to address long-term citizen action on agriculture and trade issues in India. Keywords: trade, agriculture, policy, civil society, advocacy, India, participation
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    Sharma, S. (2007) India and the agreement on agriculture : civil society and citizens' engagement. Working paper series, 278. Brighton: IDS.
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    IDS working papers;278
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