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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural policy, Trade Policy

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  Agricultural trade

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (3rd in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) explores issues around agricultural trade, focusing on the effects of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture on developing countries and on key issues for the next round of negotiations.Claims include:the Agreement on Agriculture began the process of establishing a framework of trade rules for agriculture simi
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  Effects of North American Free Trade Agreement on agriculture and the rural economy

  Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 2002

  This report evaluates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on U.S. agriculture and the rural economy. The report begins with a broad overview of the impact of NAFTA on U.S. agriculture, and follows with a more detailed account of the effects on a number of commodities.Findings include:U.S.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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  Domesticating global policy on GMOs: comparing China and India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This IDS working paper compares the way in which two leading developing countries in the global debate on biotechnology have sought to translate policy commitments contained in international agreements on trade and biosafety into workable national policy. It is a complex story of selective interpretation, conflict over priorities and politicking at the highest levels of government.
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  Impact of trade liberalisation on lives and livelihood of mountain communities in the northern areas of Pakistan

  South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2002

  This paper examines the impacts of economic liberalisation, in particular the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs on mountain communities in northern Pakistan. It examines a) how these create new opportunities and threats affecting farmers rights, and b) what coping strategies have been developed in response.
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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  Global economic prospects 2004: realising the development promise of the Doha agenda

  Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2003

  This report presents a detailed overview of the world economy, and the near-term outlook. It also analyses central elements of the Doha Agenda that are important to developing countries.The overview of the world economy projects anaemic growth of 1.5 percent in 2003 in the industrialised world. It foresees better performance next year, as industrial countries' growth rises to 2.5 percent.
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  Engineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?

  Food Ethics Council, 2003

  This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.
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  Trade Liberalisation and the Crop Sector in Bangladesh

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2003

  The liberalisation of the crop sector in Bangladesh will affect more than just production and imports. As the source of staple food, livelihood and employment for millions of people, changes in the crop sector could have far-reaching impacts on poverty and welfare. This paper addresses some of these issues and their implications.
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  US producers reap cotton subsidies and destroy African livelihoods

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Massive US cotton subsidies are encouraging over-production and export dumping and driving down world cotton prices. What are the consequences for producers in developing countries? Are US subsidies illegal under WTO rules? If they are allowed to continue, will this put an end to hopes that agricultural exports could lift Africans out of poverty?

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