Excerpted from: Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. Analysis of the proposed expansion of the Blue Box within the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Agriculture
Excerpted from Sailing Close to the the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong Ministerial. The U.S. history of using food aid as a surplus disposal mechanism and vehicle to promote future export sales has drawn the World Trade Organization into the international debate about food aid.
Excerpted from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. According to a World Trade Organization
secretariat note in October 2004, the primary objective of cooperation and policy coherence among the WTO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for the Doha Round negotiations is to expand market access opportunities.
Excerpt from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. Conventional wisdom on the World Trade Organization negotiations has it that there will be a trade-off between concessions made by industrialized countries in agriculture
Excerpt from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. The U.S. proposal for new agriculture trade rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO) would allow a deeply flawed system in agricultural trade to continue, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scheduled to rule on a highly anticipated case that will directly impact how countries around the world regulate genetically modified (GM) crops and food.
Rural Minnesota is well positioned for substantial gains from a growing bioindustrial economy based on the production of energy and products using plant matter, according to a new report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
U.S. food aid programs are plagued by inefficiency and are not addressing the long-term causes of hunger and food insecurity in the developing world. This report lays out problems with U.S. food aid and points to needed reforms.
This analysis focus on the Framework agreement reached by the WTO in July 2004. The analysis compares proposals made for agriculture with objectives set out by governments at the fourth WTO Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in 2001.
