Food security

Draft WTO Texts Show Broad Differences Among WTO Members

The draft texts released today by the WTO on new trade rules for agriculture and industrial products reflect the broad divergences that remain between WTO Members over the Doha Round, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

U.S. Boxed Into a Corner at WTO

A new economic simulation of the U.S. agriculture proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed what NGOs and developing countries have been saying for months: the proposal has so many loopholes it may actually increase the allowable amount of domestic agriculture spending in the U.S. The new simulation exposed not only the emptiness of the U.S.

El momento de la verdad

Food Aid: What Role for the WTO?

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.

Statement of EU conditional negotiating proposals

Statement by the E.C. at the Zurich mini-Ministerial meeting, 10 October 2005. The statement sets out the EUs proposals for the Doha Round.

Statement by the EU to the TNC

Statement by the Eropean Union to the Trade Negotiations Committee of the WTO presenting the EU position on the Doha negotiations. The statement was presented duting the July General Council, 2005.

Feeding More for Less in Niger

The famine unfolding today in Niger has too many familiar characteristics. One of the poorest countries in the world is in a deadly crisis. It does not have to be this way. Swift and smart reforms to outdated American food-aid programs can move us toward preventing such crises rather than cleaning up after them.

U.S. Food Aid Needs Major Reform

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, according to a new report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).

Report of mini-Ministerial, Dalian, China 12-13 July 2005

Report of the outcome of the mini-Ministerial Meeting held in Dalian, China 12-13 July 2005. The meeting was a key point in the negotiations in the run up to the July General Council and the 6th Ministerial Conference to be held in Hong Kong December 2005.