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    The effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
    This 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).
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    Impacts of trade liberalization under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) of the World Trade Organization: a case study of rice

    Asia Pacific Research Network, 2002
    This 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.
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    Introduction to the development box: finding space for development concerns in the WTO's agricultural negotiations

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003
    This 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.
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    Stock-take of the WTO agriculture negotiations: implications for developing countries

    Oxford Policy Management, 2003
    The 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.
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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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    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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    Impact of the WTO agreement on MENA agriculture

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000
    This paper reviews the status of MENA agriculture trade and policies in relation to the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and future WTO negotiations.
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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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