WTO 농업협상과 한국 농정의 과제

The WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Korean Agricultural Policies

This paper examines four important issues; the problems of the WTO system, the significances and limits of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, the reasons of Korean government`s failure in the Uruguay Round, the consistency of current Korean government`s agricultural policies with its own proposal in the WTO negotiations. Analyzing these issues, this paper concludes that the strategies of Korean government in the WTO negotiations on agriculture should be reexamined in two contexts. In the international context, Korean government should insist on the revision of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture from the viewpoint of `coexistence of various agricultures among countries`. And it is necessary to curb the offensive wave of the neoliberal liberalization in the national context.