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Book (series)No. 4. Export competition: selected issues and the empirical evidence
FAO Trade Policy Technical Notes on issues related to the WTO negotiations on agriculture
2005There is broad agreement that interventions to support exports of agricultural commodities have the potential to distort competition on world commodity markets. In particular, the use of export subsidies can displace not only third-country exporters but also domestic producers in importing countries, with particularly detrimental effects to the development prospects of developing countries. In principle, it is also possible that other government interventions, e.g. through the use of export credits, the activities of state trading enterprises, or the use of food aid to dispose of surplus production, could have similar effects to direct export subsidies in distorting markets and trade flows. -
Book (series)No. 8. Food aid in the context of international and domestic markets and the Doha Round
FAO trade policy technical notes on issues related to the WTO negotiations on agriculture
2005This technical note reviews major developments in the international food aid system and different positions on the effectiveness and impact of food aid. It also attempts to clarify the terminology, definitions and concepts used in discussions on food aid, with a view to improving the process of analysis and to help focus the debate under the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Framework Agreement on Agriculture adopted on 1 August 2004, which has called for negotiations on food aid disciplines. -
Book (stand-alone)FAO TRADE POLICY TECHNICAL NOTES - No. 12. Rice: what do analytical model results tell us?
FAO TRADE POLICY TECHNICAL BRIEFS - No. 12 Rice Liberalization: Predicting Trade and Price Impacts
20052004 was declared the International Year of Rice by the United Nations General Assembly, a tribute to a commodity that is the staple food for about half of the world’s population and also a major income earner in developing countries. Because of its strategic importance, rice has been subject to a host of policy interventions that have made it feature among the most distorted of all agricultural commodities. For this reason, rice is frequently specified in models that analyse the effects of trad e liberalization. The objective of this technical note is to review and compare the various analytical tools employed to assess such impacts, with the ultimate aim of shedding some light on critical issues under discussion in the current WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations.
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