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Special and differential treatment in the WTO agricultural negotiations
Trinity College, Dublin, 2005This paper examines the case for special and differential (S&D) treatment for developing countries within the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and the particular instruments or exemptions which such a treatment should contain.It highlights that experience to date with the implementation of the AoA has revealed a number of major shortcomings:the huge imbalance in the amount of trade-diDocumentWTO agreement on agriculture: a decade of dumping
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005This 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.DocumentFood safety and agricultural health standards: challenges and opportunities for developing country exports
World Bank, 2005The report summarises the findings of a World Bank research program on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, which was designed to improve understanding of an emerging set of policy and commercial issues in the area of food safety and agricultural health.Key findings presented in the report include:developing countries facing the challenges of rising health and food safety standardDocumentGlobal agricultural trade and developing countries
World Bank, 2005This book explores the outstanding issues in global agricultural trade policy and evolving world production and trade patterns.The first part of the book replies to the questions raised by researchers and policymakers about agricultural trade regimes and trade performance:"The evolution of agricultural trade flows," by Ataman Aksoy, gives a bird’s-eye view of the changes in global agricDocumentImpact of trade liberalisation on returns from land
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003The paper explores the impact of trade liberalisation on the returns from land for farmers in India.DocumentThe environmental costs of agricultural trade liberalisation: Mexico-U.S. maize trade under NAFTA
Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004This paper examines the environmental implications of tripling US maize exports to Mexico, following massive tariff reductions under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).DocumentAgricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004This paper assesses the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly with regards to agricultural trade liberalisation and its impact on trade of low-income countries. Observations of the study include:consumers in developed countries are more concerned with food safety and the environment than with the price-raising effect of agricultural proDocumentThe TDCA, EPAs and Southern African regionalism
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004This paper looks at the potential problem that EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) may create a division in the Southern African region.DocumentThe paradox of agricultural subsidies: measurement issues, agricultural dumping and policy reform
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2004This 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.