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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Trade Policy, Agriculture trade policy

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  A note on local and regional procurement of food aid and its potential for transforming African grain markets

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2006

  When emergency food aid needs to be distributed, where should it come from?
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  Global agriculture and the Doha Round: market access is the key

  Economic Research Service, USDA, 2006

  Agricultural tariffs have proved one of the most difficult areas under World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations but, the Economic Research Service argues here, tariff reductions that improve market access are key to achieving the benefits of trade liberalisation.
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  Liberalising agricultural trade and developing countries

  2003

  This paper presents the key issues debated at a conference on the liberalisation of agricultural trade and the interests of developing countries which took place prior to the WTO Doha Round negotiations on agriculture.
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  Informal cross border food trade in southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This brief highlights the issue of trade barriers in southern Africa and its impact on informal cross boarder trade in the region. The report shows that while there may be surpluses in neighbouring countries, food deficit countries such as Zimbabwe continue to experience a high grain prices due to import/export restrictions.
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  Supermarkets, international trade and farmers in developing countries: evidence from Madagascar

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2006

  Large supermarkets can have an increasing influence on developing countries, through foreign investments and through the imposition of their private standards.
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  Tanzania: focus on impact of agricultural subsidies

  Tanzania Online, 2005

  This press release examines the impact of subsidies to farmers in the North on the development of local markets and industries in Tanzania.The findings include:heavy cotton subsidies in the US make it difficult for Tanzanian producers to competethe beef, wheat, dry products, and non-traditional markets like spices have also suffered from subsidies abroadthe markets have become m
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  Who reaps the fruit?: critical issues in the fresh fruit and vegetable chain

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006

  The report critically analyses the influence of trade and distribution on production and production conditions in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable sector.
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  The impact of globalisation and liberalisation on agriculture and small farmers in developing countries: the case of the Philippines

  Third World Network, 2006

  This report uses case studies from the Philippines’ vegetable and poultry sector to illustrate the social effects of globalisation and trade liberalisation on rural producers, and on the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD’s) involvement in the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARM) project.The authors find that trade liberalisation has increased import
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  The impact of globalisation and liberalisation on agriculture and small farmers in developing countries: the experience of Ghana

  Third World Network, 2006

  This study is part of a research project on the impact of globalisation and liberalisation on poor rural producers in developing countries. It takes as a case study the experience of Ghana and its agricultural sector.
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  Non-reciprocal preference erosion arising from MFN liberalization in agriculture: what are the risks?

  World Trade Organization, 2006

  This paper estimates the risk of preference erosion for non-reciprocal preference recipients in the agricultural sector as a consequence of most-favoured nation (MFN) tariff cuts.

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