Agriculture
- Dumping on the poor: the Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development
- This paper critiques the EU's Common Agricultural Policy as a mechanism that promotes over-production and dumping of cheap goods that undercut local markets in developing countries. At the same time tariffs and other obstacles prevent agricultural producers in these countries from accessing the European markets for their own goods. The paper calls for the EU to support the proposal for the a proposal for a "development box" in the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture, which would change the rules to allow governments the right to protect small-scale farmers from influxes of cheap goods.
Latest Additions
- Food importing countries need a mixture of trade policy tools and food security stock
- ( C.L. Gilbert / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development , 2011)
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The food security debate is often posed as a choice between trade and stocks. This paper argues that this approach is misleading since the two strategies can be complementary.
... - Land multi-functionality is still unrecognised in rural Macedonia
- ( K. Todorov;M. Vittuari / , 2010)
- Agriculture is still the basic economic activity in rural Macedonia. This paper aims at assessing the place that agriculture has in the country's overall economy, analysing the basic structure and inc...
- South African agricultural productivity gained from trade liberalisation, but R&D can add more
- ( M.Y. Teweldemedhin;H.D. Van Schalkwyk / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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A challenge facing South Africa is to ensure that agriculture continues to contribute to the national policy objectives of economic growth. This study attempts to examine the empirical relationship...
- Identifying the most relevant agri-food trade streams to help promote e-commerce
- ( J. Deiters;M. Fritz / AgEcon Search , 2010)
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In terms of trade, the identification of the most relevant agri-food trade streams serves as the foundation. This study focuses is on the size of trade streams regarding agri-food products in selec...
- Improving food security through trade liberalisation
- ( A.F. McCalla (ed);J. Nash (ed) / , 2007)
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Among the many reasons that agricultural trade reforms are important, two stand out: the importance of agriculture in developing countries and the slow growth of agricultural trade from developing ...
- Trade agreements: South Africa is to lose in agriculture but to gain in total
- ( R. Sandrey;H.G. Jensen;T. Fundira / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa , 2010)
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This publication examines the trading implications of extending the current preferential trading agreement (PTA) between the Southern African Custom Union (SACU) and MERCOSUR to a full free trade a...
- Export revenues propping up the Malawian economy
- ( L. Nicholas;L. Hanmer / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank , 2009)
- This paper applies a growth diagnostics approach to identify the most binding constraints to private-sector growth in Malawi. The authors find that growth in Malawi has been primarily driven by the do...
- Does China influence global food prices and developing country exports?
- ( N. Villoria / AgEcon Search , 2009)
- This paper explores the consequences of the growth in China's demand for food on prices in the international markets for agricultural products. It focuses on two current debates in the literature rela...
- Interplay and linkages in the relevance of Malaysia’s strategic approach to food security
- ( L.C.Y. Wong / Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia , 2009)
- High food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 spawned serious implications for food security, macroeconomic stability and even political stability in many countries, especially developing ones. Subseque...
- Role of agricultural technology in promoting economic growth: lessons from China
- ( J. Huang;S. Rozelle / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- This report outlines the growth success registered by China over the past decades. It states that China’s rapid economic growth would not have been possible without successful growth in the agri...
