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OECD agricultural trade reforms: impact on India's prices and producers' welfare
2007This paper examines the possible impact of liberalisation of agriculture trade on small holder farmers in India. The paper analyses the impacts of removing agriculture subsidies in the European Union and United States and of import trade tariffs in India.DocumentGlobal value chains in the agrifood sector
United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2006This paper discusses agriculture and poverty reduction in the context of globalisation. Taking the global value chain perspective (GVC), it analyses the trends in agribusiness and their consequences for strategies to eradicate poverty through increasing export growth.DocumentPolicy space for Mexican maize: protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2007This policy analysis examines the room for alternative policies for agricultural provisions in Mexico under existing economic and environmental agreements, including North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).DocumentPricing farmers out of cotton: the costs of World Bank reforms in Mali
Oxfam, 2007This paper argues that recent changes to the cotton price-setting mechanism in Mali promoted by the World Bank have wider repercussions for the Malian economy and are likely to jeopardise the existing poverty-reduction strategy. Falling prices are increasing poverty in cotton-growing areas and worsening food insecurity and indebtedness.DocumentConcentrated market power and agricultural trade
WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2006Much of the discussion of competition policy reflects a preoccupation with protecting consumers against the power of organised production. However, this paper argues that in agriculture, the dominance of major corporations enables them to undermine proper market functioning, with deleterious effects on farmers.DocumentA note on local and regional procurement of food aid and its potential for transforming African grain markets
Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2006When emergency food aid needs to be distributed, where should it come from?DocumentGlobal agriculture and the Doha Round: market access is the key
Economic Research Service, USDA, 2006Agricultural tariffs have proved one of the most difficult areas under World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations but, the Economic Research Service argues here, tariff reductions that improve market access are key to achieving the benefits of trade liberalisation.DocumentInformal cross border food trade in southern Africa
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004This brief highlights the issue of trade barriers in southern Africa and its impact on informal cross boarder trade in the region. The report shows that while there may be surpluses in neighbouring countries, food deficit countries such as Zimbabwe continue to experience a high grain prices due to import/export restrictions.DocumentSupermarkets, international trade and farmers in developing countries: evidence from Madagascar
Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2006Large supermarkets can have an increasing influence on developing countries, through foreign investments and through the imposition of their private standards.