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  Implementation issues of the Agreement on Agriculture and its implications for developing countries

  Economic Research Foundation, India, 2001

  The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was an attempt to impose discipline on global agricultural trade by removing trade distortions resulting from unrestricted use of production and export subsidies and import barriers, both tariff and non-tariff.
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  The agreement on agriculture

  ActionAid International, 2002

  Agricultural trade is of vital importance for developing countries, accounting for a large share of GDP and being primary source of employment, livelihoods and basic food for the majority of population.
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  Food and trade: the WTO development challenge

  Canadian Council for International Co-operation, 2002

  In 1994 WTO members introduce agriculture into the multilateral trade negotiations in order to foster free trade in agricultural products and eliminate three types of trade barriers, such as domestic support, market access and export competition.
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  Agricultural policies in OECD countries: monitoring and evaluation 2002

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002

  Agricultural trade policy is at the centre of debate. The WTO is now re-negotiating the Agreement of Agriculture (AoA), while the European Union is working at the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) which should be implemented by 2006.
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  Trading out of poverty: WTO agreements and the West African agriculture

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2002

  The interdependence between domestic, regional and foreign agricultural production and trade policies now plays a central role in the development of the agricultural sector in West Africa, and elsewhere in Africa.This report:studies WTO agreements and their implications for the West African economiesreviews the positions of West African countries on various WTO issuescompares th
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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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  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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  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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  People, plants, and patents: the impact of intellectual property on trade, plant biodiversity, and rural society

  International Development Research Centre, 1994

  The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made.

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