India and the agreement on agriculture: civil society and citizens' engagement
2007
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 actor networks, discourse, spaces and strategies, to analyse the role five civil society organisations' (CSO) actor-networks play in advocacy on agriculture and trade policy. <br /><br />The authors argue that a number of issues such as representation and mediation, long-term versus short-term advocacy concerns and capacity constraints shape the extent to which direct citizen engagement can occur on the AoA. <br /><br />A number of challenges for advocacy and citizen engagement are also discussed. These include: <br /> actor-networks: the role of intermediaries and managing representation of citizens power/knowledge: the global-local discursive disconnect for citizens' engagement spaces and strategies: advocacy in the long term versus policy advocacy on the AoA capacity constraints that define the limits of advocacy citizens’ engagement on trade issues
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