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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND FOOD SECURITY: ISSUES AND OPTIONS IN THE WTO NEGOTIATIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
Report and papers of an FAO Symposiumheld at Geneva on 23 - 24 September 1999. Vol. 1 Issues and options.
2000As part of its mandate to provide assistance to member countries for the follow-up to the Uruguay Round and future negotiations on agriculture, FAO has pursued a wide range of activities with a view to enhancing the capacity of member countries, particularly developing countries, to analyse the implications of the Uruguay Round Agreements for the agricultural sector, to adjust to the new trading environment and thus take advantage of trading opportunities, and to participate effectively in futur e multilateral trade negotiations. The 1996 World Food Summit Plan of Action commits FAO to continue assisting developing countries on trade issues and in particular -
Book (stand-alone)The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO) 2006 2007The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2006 is the second issue of this FAO publication. It focuses on the question of why the development and food security needs of developing countries need to be better reflected in the design and implementation of new agreements on further liberalization of international agricultural markets, and on the mechanisms under discussion to achieve this. In the Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the questio n of how to safeguard the interests of developing countries, especially the lower income countries, has proved to be highly topical but also problematic, because the issues and arguments are complex and sometimes controversial. The stalling of the Doha Round in July 2006 provided an opportunity to revisit the issues of how future reductions in import tariffs on agricultural products will affect different developing countries, whether there might be any negative repercus sions of further liberalization and, if so, how these might be addressed in the formulation of new trade rules.
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