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Rising powers, reforming challenges: negotiating agriculture in the WTO Doha Round from a Brazilian perspective
2011This article examines the history of the WTO Doha Round agriculture negotiations from 2001 to 2011 in light of the shifting global balance of economic power. It shows that the rise of China, Brazil and India, among other developing countries, had an impact on the negotiations and affected the negotiating structure, processes and decision-making.DocumentGetting out of the food crisis
GRAIN, 2008The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlight the less discussed aspects of the food crisis and responses to it.DocumentTrading up: building cooperation between farmers and traders in Africa
Royal Tropical Institute, 2008Value chains provide potential benefits for both rural producers and urban consumers. This book focuses on the role of traders, which it argues are not the villains that producers often paint them as, but play an equally important role within value chains.DocumentMeso-level restructuring of the food industry in developing countries: synthesis report - meso study
Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008Rapid changes are taking place in the structure and governance of national and regional agrifood markets in developing countries, affecting the agricultural sector's ability to contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction and sustainable rural development.DocumentAgricultural trade: planting the seeds of regional liberalization in Asia
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007This publication brings together papers prepared for the “Regional Agricultural Trade Liberalization” project, which was implemented by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) researchers between May 2005 and December 2006.DocumentRising food prices: drivers and implications for development
Child Rights Information Network, 2008Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.OrganisationCenter for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania
The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.DocumentSouth Africa and China: the agricultural and fisheries trading relationship
Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2008A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world. This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Africa, which it aims to place in broader perspective of China's global trading relationships.DocumentFood sovereignty comes of age: Africa leads efforts to rethink our food system
UK Food Group, 2007The article focuses on the debates and discussions that took place at the Nyéléni 2007 Forum for Food Sovereignty, which was held in Mali, representing organisations across various sectors of food providers from across the globe.DocumentChanges in global value chains of fresh fruit and vegetables: opportunities and challenges for producers in Sub-Saharan Africa
South Centre, 2007The governance of the global value chain in fresh fruit and vegetables no longer consists of an arm’s-length relationship between African (in the context of this document) smallholder producers and retailers with the links along the chain including agents and wholesalers.Pages