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Support of the Netherlands to Capacity Building in Developing Countries

Year of publication 2002

Author Nutrition Division

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper started with analysis of the context of globalization and liberalization. I have worked on the assumption that globalization is a irreversible process and consequently support to capacity building should take account of this fact. This assumption applies equally to liberalization. In 1995, agriculture was included in the international trade agreements for the first time since the signing of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) after the Second World War. The WTO agreement s contain a system on trade in agricultural products. All sorts of quantitative border control measures have been translated into tariffs and subsequently a political decision has been taken to decrease the tariff level globally. There is consensus world-wide that this system is an achievement and should therefore not be abandoned. However, attention will be given to qualitative border measures. And it is precisely here that support to capacity building comes into the picture.

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