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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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  Agricultural policies in OECD countries: monitoring and evaluation 2002

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002

  Agricultural trade policy is at the centre of debate. The WTO is now re-negotiating the Agreement of Agriculture (AoA), while the European Union is working at the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) which should be implemented by 2006.
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  Policy, national regulation, and international standards for GM foods

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  The adoption of biotechnology and the introduction of GM foods into the international marketplace has exacerbated an already difficult area of trade policy. As biotechnology increases productive capacity in various products, it also increases the need to trade. But diverging national regulations are increasingly impeding trade in these products creating market distortions.
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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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  Milking the CAP: how Europe's dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy people’s livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest countries.Dairy dumping is a worrying problem because milk producers in developing countries cannot compete effectively with European milk producers who are heavily subsidised by their governments.
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  Trade and poverty: background briefing

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  The reduction in barriers to international trade can increase and create incomes for the poor and provide more resources to fight poverty.This paper:describes the impact of liberalisation on household and individual income levels identifies three channels through which trade reform affects poverty, that is prices, enterprise and government revenueanalyses how policy-making decis
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  Protect knowledge to feed the world?: the application of intellectual property rights in international agriculture today and tomorrow

  Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002

  After a brief conceptual definition of property and intellectual property (IP), this paper argues that IP neither helps nor harms the interests of the poor. IP rights systems (IPRs) have only an indirect effect on the poor that is determined through policy decisions, particularly as related to access.
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  Benefits and shortcomings of intellectual property rights for small scale farmers in developing countries

  Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002

  Rafael Mariano from the Peasant Movement of the Philippines presents his case arguing that intellectual property rights, and more broadly science, have been co-opted by business interests (supported by the US) to strengthen their control over agricultural production and to open up new markets at the expense of small farmers and developing countries.In particular he argues: The 1991 Act
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  Europe's double standards: how the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  The European Union has made much benefit to developing countries, but there is still a lot to do for reaching economic development and poverty eradication.This paper points out the worst features of EU trade policy, including:spending $41 billion a year on agricultural subsidies, regardless the negative effects that they can exert on developing countries economiesfailing to allow de
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  Modern biotechnology and developing-world agriculture

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  This essay provides and introduction to agricultural biotechnology in a developing country context. The author looks at issues of food security, consumer acceptance, sectoral change and regulation in the context of advances in genomics and bioinformatics which have led to an increase in the rate and volume of advances in the biotech.

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