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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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Book (stand-alone)COMMODITY MARKET REVIEW 2003-2004 2003
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The present issue of the Commodity Market Review (CMR) marks a significant departure from past issues of the same named FAO publication. In the past the main focus of the CMR was a review of developments in agricultural commodity markets, a description of the current situation, and a short term outlook for these commodities. The CMR 2001-2002 departed somewhat from this format, by including some short analytical articles, that tried to explain in more detail the factors that shape commodity mark et developments. In the past few years, the situation and outlook of food and agricultural commodities is being presented on the Commodities and Trade Division Web pages of the FAO Web site at www.fao.org (under “Departments” ES, Commodities and Trade Division) or directly at www.fao.org/ES/esc. This form of information provides greater scope for timely dissemination of detailed market information and more frequent updating than what is possible with conventional printed publications. The Web pages have undergone redesign that has made them more accessible and more user friendly. It is thus unnecessary to repeat the same information in printed form. -
Book (stand-alone)Commodity market review 2001-2002 2002This year’s Commodity Market Review (CMR), FAO’s annual publication on food and agricultural commodities and trade, introduces some innovations over earlier editions. The main focus of the CMR in the past was on a review of developments in commodity markets, describing the current situation and the shortterm outlook. This new edition includes five analytical articles which look beyond the current situation and outlook to explain in more detail and explain some of the implications of factors whic h shape commodity market developments and topical policy issues. In this edition there are articles on long term trends in basic foodstuffs prices, the influence of oil prices on agricultural commodity prices, tariff peaks and tariff-cutting formulae, African food deficits and surpluses, and the impact of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture. The situation and outlook of food and agricultural commodity markets is still here in Part II of the new publication, but in a slightly condensed for m. Market reviews are presented for 19 food and agricultural commodities.
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