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WTO Members to Tackle Contentious Ag Trade Issues

American Farm Bureau The World Trade Organization announced last week that its members reached consensus to proceed to the next phase of ag trade talks, paving the way for negotiations to commence on increasing global market access for farm exports.

WTO Agriculture Work Plan

Inside US Trade / Vol. 19, No. 13 WORK PROGRAMME FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONTINUING THE REFORM PROCESS UNDER ARTICLE 20 OF THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE * Nature and scope of Work Programme: work in depth on all issues and options for policy reform set out in Members' proposals, with further elaboration as appropriate.

Negotiators Agree New Timetable for WTO Farm Talks

Agra Europe A framework for a second year of agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organisation was agreed in Geneva on Tuesday. The work programme outlines subjects to be tackled through specific negotiated changes to the WTO's agriculture agreement, and was concluded one day ahead of schedule.

Following the Tour of Two CPE Farm Leaders in the USA

NFFC- National Family Farm Coalition United States of America Tel + 202 543-5675 & email : nffc@nffc.net The European Farmers Co-ordination (CPE, Western Europe) and the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC, United States) issued this joint statement Washington, March 30, 2001 Spring for Action:

New Approach to Farm Bills Challenges Farm Groups

By Gary R. Blumenthal, World Perspectives, Inc. March 21, 2001

Movement Brings Together Strange Bedfellows From Right and Left

By Reginald Dale International Herald Tribune March 16, 2001 Movement Brings Together Strange Bedfellows From Right and Left WASHINGTON Mike Moore, the genial director general of the World Trade Organization, likes to claim at least one world record: When he visited India recently, he says, he was burned in effigy in 30 different cities simultaneously.

WTO Seeks Bigger Services Role for Poorer Nations

Reuters / By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (WTO) countries agreed Wednesday to shape coming liberalization negotiations to try to ensure that developing countries play a larger role in the global services industry.

WTO Can Help World""s Poor Farmers

International Herald Tribune / Eugenio Diaz Bonilla and Sherman Robinson, IHT

WTO Agriculture Negotiations Proceed into Phase Two

BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest / Vol. 5, Number 11

The Violence of Globalisation

The Hindu "Protection" has become a dirty word in the era of free markets and globalisation. But, says VANDANA SHIVA, the spread of liberalisation has only led to new forms of violence against humanity. Excerpts from her testimony at the Women's Court, South Africa, on March 8.