Negotiating The Future Of Agricultural Policies Agricultural Trade And The Millennium Wto Round

Author : Sanoussi Bilal,Pavlos Pezaros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110298887

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Negotiating the Future of Agricultural Policies:Agricultural Trade and the Millennium WTO Round by Sanoussi Bilal,Pavlos Pezaros Pdf

With the conclusion of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture in 1994, agriculture has for the first time been integrated into world trade rules and disciplines. WTO Members have made a commitment to continue the reform process initiated during the Uruguay Round by starting new WTO negotiations on agriculture by 2000. This book combines academic analysis with practical expertise to discuss, in an accessible and systematic way, some of the principal aspects of these agricultural negotiations, and aims to make recommendations for viable and successful negotiating positions in the new WTO talks on agricultural trade. Several expert articles outline the historical and political background of previous negotiations and policy developments in agricultural trade. Others provide an overview of the key issues for the new round of negotiations, including: the Common Agricultural Policy reform in view of the Millennium Round objectives and future enlargement of the European Union; the prospects for negotiations in the areas of market access and export subsidies; and aspects of primary importance for the future of international agricultural trade such as food safety and quality standards, environmental and animal welfare considerations, and issues under dispute in the WTO. The positions of leading actors in the new round of negotiations, including major countries (Japan and the United States), groups of countries (the European Union, the Cairns Group and net food-importing countries) and European farmers are also presented.

Author : Andrew D O'Rourke,P. Lynn Kennedy,Won W Koo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1560229330

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Agricultural Trade Policies in the New Millennium by Andrew D O'Rourke,P. Lynn Kennedy,Won W Koo Pdf

Face the challenge of change in the global agricultural trade market! This insightful book presents a comprehensive overview of the trade situation facing agriculture in the 21st century. This esteemed collection of the field?s foremost researchers evaluates anticipated changes to the agricultural trade market and the competitiveness of commodities and products resulting from existing and potential international policies. Agricultural Trade Policies in the New Millennium provides an in-depth understanding of multilateral trade negotiations (past, present, and future) and the impact of regionalism on agricultural trade. It also analyzes trade issues specific to individual commodities, such as rice, wheat, and cotton. Agricultural Trade Policies in the New Millennium consolidates essential trade research into a one-of-a-kind reference source for economists, academics, and agriculture professionals. The book provides a detailed overview of current and potential trade situations, divided into three concise sections: key issues influencing trade negotiations from the perspective of developed and developing countries and the environment; commodity trade and trade policy issues concerning competitiveness and the international policy environment for coarse grains, cotton, rice, sugar, and wheat; and general issues related to multilateral and regional trade agreements, including policy tools within the World Trade Organization, anti-dumping actions, regionalism, price volatility, and the macroeconomic effects of trade liberalization. Agricultural Trade Policies in the New Millennium examines: key issues influencing trade negotiations commodity trade and trade policy issues issues and concerns related to multilateral and regional trade negotiations challenges facing trade policy prospects for the agricultural sector in the new millennium With international policy issues like the WTO’s Millennium Round and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in negotiation and a new United States farm bill pending, Agricultural Trade Policies in the New Millennium provides much-needed textbook analysis by expert researchers. This vital book will keep you in touch with current trade negotiations and policy decisions that are certain to hold major implications for the agricultural sector.

Author : Glauber, Joseph W.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Negotiating agricultural trade in a new policy environment by Glauber, Joseph W. Pdf

The challenges to meeting the growing global food demand—population and income growth and supply uncertainties complicated by climate change, environmental pressures, and water scarcity—all point to the increasing importance of trade and the need for a more, not less, open trading system. Growth in agricultural trade has been facilitated in part through the rules-based system established under the World Trade Organization (WTO), particularly the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). The AoA was implemented in 1995 and brought substantial discipline to the areas of market access, domestic support, and export competition. However, progress since the Uruguay Round has been limited. While the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) was launched with much anticipation in 2001, members failed to reach agreement in July 2008 and the trade agenda in Geneva has since advanced slowly. Despite the best efforts of many, the negotiating intensity seen in late 2007 and 2008 has largely dissipated, in part due to the global recession and the inevitable changes in governments that sometime shift the focus of negotiations. Serious efforts were made to renew the negotiations, but in the end, members have had to be content with harvesting the low-hanging fruit, such as trade facilitation and export competition. Although there have been significant accomplishments, they represent but a small portion of what was on the table during the DDA negotiations. In addition, negotiated settlements on the tougher issues, such as market access and domestic support, have become more difficult to obtain in isolation. The recent experience at the WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires highlights the difficulties of reaching a negotiated settlement on domestic support in isolation from, say, market access. Given the increasing importance of trade in addressing food security needs and its critical role in efforts to eliminate malnutrition and hunger by 2030, achieving further progress in the liberalization of world trade is of paramount importance.

Author : Niek Koning,Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402060858

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Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries by Niek Koning,Per Pinstrup-Andersen Pdf

Developing countries as a group stand to gain very substantially from trade reform in agricultural commodities. Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries is the first book to address important questions relating to this subject. The authors are world renowned experts on international trade and development and they address a very important and timely issue.

Author : Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla,Søren Elkjær Frandsen,Sherman Robinson
Publisher : CABI
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845930509

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WTO Negotiations and Agricultural Trade Liberalization by Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla,Søren Elkjær Frandsen,Sherman Robinson Pdf

Based on original research by the Food and Resource Economic Institute in Denmark and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, this book addresses the controversial issue of the effects of developed countries' agricultural policies on developing countries. Written from the perspective of developing countries, it addresses the main issues raised by developing countries' governments, politicians, farmers organizations, NGO's, trade specialists and development specialists. It focuses on the key issues of food security, poverty, regional agreements, multifunctionality in agriculture and the trade of genetically modified products, as an input to policy reform within the World Trade Organization trade negotiations.

Author : Giovanni Anania
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : UCSD:31822033200080

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Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO by Giovanni Anania Pdf

Contiene: Preface Agricultural Policy Reform: Past Present and Future. - Part I: Agriculture and Agricultural Policy Changes Ten Years After the Uruguay Round. - Part II: The Three Pillars of the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture. - Part III: Agricultural Trade Relations, WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and the Developing World. - Part IV: The WTO and the Future of International Trade Relations.

Author : National Policy Association (U.S.). Food and Agriculture Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111393844

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Agricultural Trade Negotiations and the Developing Countries After Seattle by National Policy Association (U.S.). Food and Agriculture Committee Pdf

Author : Hewitt, Joanna
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impact evaluation of research by the International Food Policy Research Institute on agricultural trade liberalization, developing countries, and WTO's Doha negotiations by Hewitt, Joanna Pdf

"This report assesses the impact of IFPRI's work on the agriculture negotiations in the WTO's Doha Round. It is set against the context of IFPRI's mission which emphasizes food security and the interests of poor people in low-income countries and underlines the importance of active engagement in policy communications to link research work to policy action. The report also traces briefly the evolution of IFPRI's work on international agricultural trade more generally, noting its broad disposition to market-oriented policy prescriptions while illuminating the very different impacts of agricultural trade liberalization on individual developing countries through detailed research at the national and household level." -- from Author's Abstract

Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781925261356

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Finishing Global Farm Trade Reform: by Kym Anderson Pdf

This study reviews policy developments in recent years and, in the light of that, explores ways in which further consensus might be reached among WTO members to reduce farm trade distortions – and thereby also progress the multilateral trade reform agenda. Particular attention is given to ways that would boost well-being in developing countries, especially for those food-insecure households still suffering from poverty and hunger.

Author : Michiel Keyzer,Max Merbis,Geert Overbosch
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9251044236

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WTO, Agriculture, and Developing Countries by Michiel Keyzer,Max Merbis,Geert Overbosch Pdf

The 3rd Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at Seattle was not able to launch a new and comprehensive round of multilateral trade negotiations, but it is expected that in the coming years the WTO will be the forum of these negotiations, commonly referred to as the Millenium Round. Developing countries are currently greatly involved in the WTO process and seek active participation in this round. In relation to least developed countries in Africa, and with Ethiopia as country for a case study, the present paper argues that the Agreement on Agriculture, part of the Uruguay Round, has put a system of basic mechanisms into place but not led to significant agricultural trade liberalization. At the same time, a new host of issues have emerged that relate directly or indirectly to food and agriculture. The report highlights the various interactions between these subjects from the perspective of Ethiopia.

Author : Anwarul Hoda,Ashok Gulati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822034684407

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WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries by Anwarul Hoda,Ashok Gulati Pdf

The World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward establishing a fair and harmonious agricultural trading system. Because the results of the Doha Round could have far-reaching implications for the trade and economic prospects of developing countries in the twenty-first century, it is critical for these countries to fully understand the issues involved in the negotiations on agriculture. However, there has been no authoritative analysis of the rules and modalities on which governments of developing countries can rely. This book, coauthored by an insider to the trade talks that led to the establishment of the WTO, fills this gap. The volume begins with a detailed analysis of the provisions of the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture and the modalities of the negotiations. It examines the implementation experience of key members of the WTO, then traces the developments in the negotiations up to the recent impasse. In light of these considerations, and on the basis of a case study of India, the authors propose various elements of a negotiating position and strategy for developing countries. The authors offer tough but realistic recommendations regarding tariffs, market access, treatment of sensitive or special products, and other aspects of international trade. This book will be of particular interest to researchers and practitioners as well as students seeking in-depth knowledge of the recent history of agricultural trade talks.

Author : Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCBK:C084903566

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Making Progress in Global Agricultural Trade by Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Pdf

This update provides current information on what is happening in the World Trade Organization (WTO) agriculture negotiations. It deals with such matters as: the Doha mandate for agriculture negotiations; the draft modalities text of the Chairman of the WTO agriculture negotiations; the Doha Development Agenda; Canada's objectives for the agriculture negotiations; the domestic policies and negotiating positions of the United States, European Union and key developing countries.

Author : Joseph W. Glauber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1301361159

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Negotiating Agricultural Trade in a New Policy Environment by Joseph W. Glauber Pdf

The challenges to meeting the growing global food demand -- population and income growth and supply uncertainties complicated by climate change, environmental pressures, and water scarcity -- all point to the increasing importance of trade and the need for a more, not less, open trading system. Growth in agricultural trade has been facilitated in part through the rules-based system established under the World Trade Organization (WTO), particularly the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). The AoA was implemented in 1995 and brought substantial discipline to the areas of market access, domestic support, and export competition. However, progress since the Uruguay Round has been limited. While the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) was launched with much anticipation in 2001, members failed to reach agreement in July 2008 and the trade agenda in Geneva has since advanced slowly. Despite the best efforts of many, the negotiating intensity seen in late 2007 and 2008 has largely dissipated, in part due to the global recession and the inevitable changes in governments that sometime shift the focus of negotiations. Serious efforts were made to renew the negotiations, but in the end, members have had to be content with harvesting the low-hanging fruit, such as trade facilitation and export competition. Although there have been significant accomplishments, they represent but a small portion of what was on the table during the DDA negotiations. In addition, negotiated settlements on the tougher issues, such as market access and domestic support, have become more difficult to obtain in isolation. The recent experience at the WTO's Eleventh Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires highlights the difficulties of reaching a negotiated settlement on domestic support in isolation from, say, market access. Given the increasing importance of trade in addressing food security needs and its critical role in efforts to eliminate malnutrition and hunger by 2030, achieving further progress in the liberalization of world trade is of paramount importance.

Author : Merlinda D. Ingco,L. Alan Winters
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822031084270

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Agricultural Trade Liberalization in a New Trade Round by Merlinda D. Ingco,L. Alan Winters Pdf

This book contains papers, commissioned for a World Bank.

Author : Farai Chigavazira
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783960670599

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The Regulation of Agricultural Subsidies in the World Trade Organization Framework. A Developing Country Perspective by Farai Chigavazira Pdf

The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was adopted to eliminate the illegitimate use of trade distorting agricultural subsidies and, thereby, reduce and avoid the negative effects subsidies have on global agricultural trade. However, the AoA has been fashioned in a way that is enabling developed countries to continue high levels of protectionism through subsidization, whilst many developing countries are facing severe and often damaging competition from imports artificially cheapened through subsidies. The regulation of subsidies by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been a highly sensitive issue. This is mainly due to the fear of compromising on food security, especially by developed countries. Developing countries have suffered negatively from the subsidy programmes of developed countries, which continue to subsidize their agricultural sector. This position of developing countries in the global trade system, which has been described as weak, has drawn criticism of the WTO, namely that it does not protect the interests of the weak developing nations, but rather strengthens the interests of the strong developed nations. The green box provisions which are specifically designed to regulate payments that are considered trade neutral or minimally trade distorting have grossly been manipulated by developed countries at the mercy of the AoA. Developed countries continue to provide trade distorting subsidies under the guise of green box support. This is defeating the aims and objectives of the AoA. The study examines the regulation of WTO agricultural subsidies from the developing countries’ perspective. It looks at the problems WTO member states face with trade distorting subsidies, but focuses more on the impact these have on developing states. It scrutinizes the AoA’s provisions regulating subsidies by adopting a perspective to identify any loopholes or shortcomings which undermine the interests and aspirations of developing countries. This is against the background that some of the provisions of the AoA are lenient towards the needs of developed countries at the expense of developing countries.