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  Understanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2005

  This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?
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  The relationship between trade and sustainable development of agriculture in Central America

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2003

  This summary document highlights the main aspects of a study characterising the evolution of the agricultural sector in Central America over recent years and exploring ways to remove the negative environmental consequences and to promote conservation.Characteristics of the Central American agricultural sector include: the products that have demonstrated the most dynamism were based on t
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  Implementing the human right to food: domestic obligations and the international trade in agriculture

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2003

  This paper reports on a workshop held in September 2003 in Cancun, Mexico.
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  Dumping on the world: how EU sugar policies hurt poor countries

  Oxfam, 2004

  This paper details the issues surrounding the European Union’s policy with regards to the sugar market, discussing the implications for development countries.Highlights of the paper include:European Union sugar policies hamper global efforts to reduce povertyexport subsidies are used to dump five million tonnes of surplus sugar annually on world markets, destroying opportunities for
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  The threat to international business of the spread of environmental trade sanctions

  APEC Study Centre, 2002

  The author of this paper argues that the agreement at Doha to continue to build global economic interdependence is a re-affirmation by the nations of the civilized world of their intention to continue to cooperate for the common good of all.
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  The great EU sugar scam: how Europe's sugar regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  Under the common agricultural policy (CAP), the EU has emerged as the world's largest exporter of white sugar. Subsidies and tariffs generate vast profits for big sugar processors and large farmers whilst vast surpluses are dumped on world markets.This briefing paper highlights that the EU's sugar regime is in opposition to the theory of comparative advantage.
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  Reforming global trade in agriculture: a developing-country perspective

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002

  This paper recommends changes to the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture (AOA).
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  Unequal harvest: farmers' voices on international trade and the right to food

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2001

  This paper illustrates a sample of the day-to-day food-security challenges for agricultural workers in the face of liberalised trade policies.
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  The global governance of trade as if development really mattered

  United Nations Development Programme, 2001

  This paper presents an alternative account of economic development, one which questions the centrality of trade and trade policy and emphasizes instead the critical role of domestic institutional innovations. It argues that economic growth is rarely sparked by imported blueprints and opening up the economy is hardly ever critical at the outset.
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  African agriculture in the WTO framework

  African Economic Research Consortium, 1999

  This paper attempts to analyse what impact the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) will have on African agriculture within the new WTO framework.The paper begins with a broad analysis of the structure and growth of African agriculture and identifies key internal and external factors that seem to explain the structure and performance of Africa’s agricultural production and trade.

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