"These agreements are explicitly set up for trade – not to promote sustainable development. That’s the starting premise, and that’s why we get these results.” - Karen Hansen-Kuhn

Jim Goodman (President of the National Family Farm Coalition) and Karen Hansen-Kuhn (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) sit down with Raj Patel (UT Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs) to talk about the current state of agricultural trade. They discuss some of the structural issues underlying how profitability skews trade to benefit large agribusiness over the small farmer, go into detail about China and the soybean market (15:00), and the USMCA deal ( ...