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The effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This paper examines two alternative versions of further trade liberalisation; one representing free trade world wide, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the other a Western hemisphere free trade bloc, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).DocumentImpacts of trade liberalization under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) of the World Trade Organization: a case study of rice
Asia Pacific Research Network, 2002This paper asks whether or not Thailand is going to benefit from the multilateral trade mechanism according to the Agreement on Agriculture. More particularly, whether or not the small-scale farmers are going to benefit from the agreement.The paper demonstrates that, even as Thailand calls itself an ‘agricultural country’, agricultural products are valued only as commodities.DocumentIntroduction to the development box: finding space for development concerns in the WTO's agricultural negotiations
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003This paper introduces the Development Box, a package of proposals made by a dozen or so developing countries concerned that existing WTO rules for agriculture are undermining food security and rural livelihoods in their countries. The Development Box (DB) offers possible exceptions to the trade rules to meet the needs of countries with few resources and urgent food security needs.DocumentStock-take of the WTO agriculture negotiations: implications for developing countries
Oxford Policy Management, 2003The report provides an outline of the future progress of the WTO negotiations, followed by some basic considerations for a new agreement. A summary of the most important issues for developing countries in the negotiations is then provided.DocumentImplementation issues of the Agreement on Agriculture and its implications for developing countries
Economic Research Foundation, India, 2001The 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.DocumentThe agreement on agriculture
ActionAid International, 2002Agricultural 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.DocumentFood and trade: the WTO development challenge
Canadian Council for International Co-operation, 2002In 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.DocumentTrading out of poverty: WTO agreements and the West African agriculture
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2002The 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 thDocumentImpact of the WTO agreement on MENA agriculture
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000This paper reviews the status of MENA agriculture trade and policies in relation to the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and future WTO negotiations.DocumentFrom Uruguay to Doha: agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization
WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002This 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 countrPages
