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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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    When economic reform goes wrong: cashews in Mozambique

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2002
    This paper is a case study into the impact of an export liberalization programme on cashew farmers in Mozambique. The authors argue that opponents of the reform felt that the policy did little to benefit poor cashew farmers while bankrupting factories in urban areas.
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    Sustaining agricultural biodiversity and the integrity and free flow of genetic resources for food for agriculture

    Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002
    This report claims that agricultural biodiversity is being lost as a result of industrialisation, the globalisation of markets and genetically modified crops.It calls on governments to implement treaties and plans to which they have signed up but are not enforcing.
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    Biodiversity rights legislation

    GRAIN, 2002
    Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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    Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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    From Uruguay to Doha: agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
    This discussion paper examines current agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization, with particular attention to the relationship between liberalization and developing countries’ economic growth and food security.Agriculture remains one of the most highly protected arenas of international trade and that the cost of such protection falls particularly hard on developing countr
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    The impact on Uganda of agricultural trade liberalisation

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
    This paper evaluates the impact on Uganda of the liberalisation of world trade, especially in agricultural commodities, as proposed in the Uruguay Round.It draws three broad conclusions.
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    Extending special and differential treatment (SDT) in agriculture for developing countries

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
    The argument put forward in this paper is that the instruments to give effect to special and differential treatment (SDT) are in a state of flux (because of changes in national and multilateral trade policy), but that the principles remain valid and justify the creation of new instruments.One prime candidate for new SDT, the paper argues, is the area of food security and with this in mind it e
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    Bold development box proposals meet with stiff resistance (WTO Agreement on Agriculture)

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2002
    Since the Seattle Ministerial developing countries have sought to introduce a ‘development box’ that would allow them more flexibility in implementing the Agreement on Agriculture.This article outlines the various proposals and responses and charts the progress of negotiations.Among proposals were provisions that:developing countries should be able to exempt staple crops important t
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    Agriculture negotiations: the issues, and where we are now

    World Trade Organization, 2002
    A "backgrounder" on agriculture negotiations at the WTO updated to cover the end of phase 2 of the ongoing negotiations and future tasks under the Doha mandate.The report gives details of proposals recieved during phases 1 and 2 and the various country groupings and alliances formed during this process. It also contains an issue based analysis of progress made and future objectives.

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