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  The international trends in plant variety protection

  Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2005

  This paper looks at international trends in Plant Variety Protection (PVP), a form of intellectual property rights for plant varieties. The Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs) Agreement of the World Trade Organization promotes the standardisation of plant variety protection regimes with common levels of protection for all countries.
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  Agricultural negotiations at the WTO: first, do no harm

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005

  This paper examines the interests underlying current trade negotiations, particularly those relating to agriculture.
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  Dumping on the poor: the Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005

  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.
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  The antidumping negotiations: proposals, positions and antidumping profiles

  Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2005

  This paper examines the positions taken by major actors in the negotiations over the rules governing the use of antidumping (AD) duties that are occurring in both the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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  Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda

  World Bank, 2005

  This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.
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  Planting the rights seed: a human rights perspective on agriculture trade and the WTO

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  The report critically examines the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA).
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  Incorporating gender considerations for the designation of special products in WTO agriculture negotiations

  International Gender and Trade Network, 2005

  This paper puts forward some reflections and recommendations in regard to the current situation of women in agriculture and the need to integrate gender-sensitive trade policies in negotiating processes in order to ease negative impacts of trade liberalisation, particularly for small farmers and rural poor, women being a significant percentage within those groups.In particular, the paper focuse
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  WTO agreement on agriculture: a decade of dumping

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  This paper documents the widespread dumping of agricultural products by global agribusiness companies based in the United States and European Union. It provides an extensive appendix with data and calculations from 1990 to 2003 for five commodities grown in the U.S. and sold on the world market: wheat, corn (maize), soybean (soya), rice and cotton.An examination of U.S.
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  The need for Special Products and Special Safeguard Mechanisms for agriculture in the WTO: a situational analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper argues that developing countries need to identify the areas in multilateral trade rules that are required to facilitate the achievement of goals in food security, livelihoods and rural development needs.
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  Agriculture: remarkable turn-around from Cancun

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2004

  This article from the Bridges Weekly Trade Digest provides an early summary of Annex A of the 31 July WTO General Council Decision.

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