Commentary
Trump has promised Belarus a massive potash deal. But Minsk is seeking something greater: restored Western transit and greater room for maneuver from Russia.
Balázs Jarábik
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Reforming Global Trade in Agriculture: A Developing-Country Perspective
More than seven years after the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) signed the landmark Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), the benefits and drawbacks of that accord are coming into stark relief. A new agreement should give developing countries the flexibility to adopt domestic policies that are geared to enhance domestic production and protect the livelihoods of their rural poor.
By Shishir Priyadarshi
Published on Aug 23, 2002
Source: Carnegie
More than seven years after the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) signed the landmark Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), the benefits and drawbacks of that accord are coming into stark relief. For developing countries dependent on agriculture exports, the AOA has not succeeded in opening markets in industrial countries. Even more crucially, the low-income and resource-poor farmers in the world’s poor and vulnerable countries continue to suffer from a lack of adequate and secure food sources, while having to contend with import surges and other forces of global competition.
The new round of agriculture negotiations, the mandate of which was further strengthened in the November 2001 Doha Ministerial Declaration, gives the WTO and its members a chance to rectify these imbalances. A new agreement should give developing countries the flexibility to adopt domestic policies that are geared to enhance domestic production and protect the livelihoods of their rural poor.
About the Author
Shishir Priyadarshi is on the staff of the Development and Economic Research Division of the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He is responsible for the work of the WTO’S Committee on Trade and Development, including the mandated work arising out of the Doha Development Agenda on technology transfer and special and differential treatment. Until recently, he was on the staff of the South Centre, an intergovernmental organization of developing countries based in Geneva, where he was responsible for providing developing countries with analytical and technical assistance on issues being considered by the WTO.
About the Author
Shishir Priyadarshi
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