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  Regional cooperation for poverty alleviation and food security in South Asia

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2004

  The proposed trade integration in South Asia through SAFTA raises some pertinent issues in the context of trade and food security debate in the region. The challenges in terms of loss of livelihood security and fall in the commodity prices in the agriculture sector are some of the apprehensions being raised at various fora, especially civil society organisations.
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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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  WTO: Impact on Pakistan’s agriculture

  Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2004

  The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAOA), 1986-94, was the first step towards inclusion of the agriculture sector within the global trade rules of the GATT.
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  The potential impacts of the biosafety protocol on agricultural commodity trade

  International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2004

  This paper, based on analysis by Professor N. Kalaitzandonakes and with input from the International Policy Council (ICP), identifies potential issues that will arise as the Biosafety Protocol (BSP) is implemented. It also outlines the likely effects on farmers, consumers, and traders in developed and developing countries.
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  Impact of agricultural trade and related policy reforms on food security in Kenya

  Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2004

  During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kenya reformed its monetary, fiscal and trade policy and liberalised its agricultural sector.
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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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  The environmental costs of agricultural trade liberalisation: Mexico-U.S. maize trade under NAFTA

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This paper examines the environmental implications of tripling US maize exports to Mexico, following massive tariff reductions under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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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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  The paradox of agricultural subsidies: measurement issues, agricultural dumping and policy reform

  Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2004

  This paper examines the economic and policy aspects of agricultural subsidies. The paper focuses on the most widely used measure of agricultural support, the OECD’s Producer Support Estimate.
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  Agriculture and the Andean Free Trade Agreement: what’s at stake in Colombia?

  Washington Office on Latin America, 2004

  This paper reports on trade negotiations between the United States and the Andean region regarding a new set of bilateral trade agreements known as the Andean Free Trade Agreement.

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