For mutually supportive agricultural and trade policies
Resources
- No to a US-EU Free Trade Area
The European Parliament will soon vote on a report which calls for « a transatlantic barrier-free market by 2015 ». The European Farmers Coordination (CPE) and the American National Family Farm (...)
- EcoFair Trade Dialogue: New Directions for Agricultural Trade Rules
The EcoFair Trade Dialogue aims to push the debate about WTO and the agricultural trade system further. Although there seems to be a widespread NO to the neo-liberal trade-agenda, there is still (...)
- Dynamics of International Agricultural Prices
The document below is a synthesis of a seminar Co-organized on June 7, 2005 by the CERI, Coordination Southern, the CIRAD and GEMDEV on the dynamics of the international agricultural prices. It (...)
- Securing Enough to Eat
This paper by Sophia Murphy explains the fundamental elements of food security and the various strategies for its realization. Murphy makes a direct reference to the Dakar Process and the Call (...)
- Agricultural Liberalization and the Developing Countries: Debunking the Fallacies
Arvind Panagariya, professor of economy at the University of Columbia (New York), debunks in the article below a series of fallacies on the relations which exist between liberalization of (...)
- Crisis and Risk Management in the Agricultural Sector
A hearing on this topic took place in the European Parliament on June 20, 2005. Below the contribution of the expert Jean-Marc Boussard who distinguishes the risks according to their nature and (...)
- A New Farm Bill
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)reasserts that the goal of food, farm, and trade policy should be a globally sustainable and adequate supply of wholesome food at affordable prices. NFFC (...)
- Farm Subsidy Cap is not the Answer
Text written by the president of the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), George Naylor, explaining in the American context of the Farm Bill that cap on subsidies and other payment cuts are not (...)
- Conclusions from the Seminar of the Luxembourg Presidency of the EU on Food Security
The Luxembourg Presidency organised from the 21st to 23rd of March 2005 a seminar entitled: "How to achieve food security: a major challenge for policy coherence". Following this seminar, (...)
- ECDPM - The Cotonou partnership agreement in brief
Various documents available to help "non-state actors" understand better the issues at stake in the ACP - EU negotiation following the adoption of the Cotonou agreement. Make your choice (...)
- Backgrounder on agricultural negotiations in the World Trade Organisation, on the WTO website
The WTO secretariat has updated its "backgrounder" page on agricultural negotiations on Decembre, 1, 2004.
Informations are generally clear and pedagogical. They are organised by subject, (...)
- The WTO July 2004 Framework Agreement - An overview of agriculture
In the end of July 2004, the General Council of the World Trade organisation adopted what is called a "framework agreement" to go on with the Doha round of negotiations. "Framework" means that no (...)
- Glossary for the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
Baffled by the boxes? Terrified by tariffication? Stymied by the special safeguard? Thanks to this glossary by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, you can become an instant Agricuture (...)
- An old man and the land, by Edgar Pisani
Former Minister of Agriculture in France from 1961 to 1966, and then a MEP 1973-81 and a member of the European Commission (1981-84), Edgar Pisani publishes a book entitled "Un vieil homme et la (...)
- Declining Prices of Primary Commodities
from BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest - Vol. 7, Number 35 23 October, 2003)
Declining Prices of Primary Commodities
Members spent the remainder of the 16 October, and part of the 23 October (...)
- Dossier Alternatives Economiques: pourquoi le libre-echange ne pourra pas nourrir le monde
Dans son numéro de septembre 2003, le magazine français Alternatives Economiques publie un dossier intitulé "Pourquoi le libre-échange ne pourra pas nourrir le monde". C’est (...)
- NEPAD – Doha Round (WTO), Peasant Proposals for West Africa
During the Cancun Ministerial Meeting of the WTO, the ROPPA delagation had presented to the leaders of the African States, to their trading partners in Africa and Africa’s trading partners (...)
- Ressources from IATP on www.tradeobservatory.org
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has published a pamphlet that introduces major issues on the agenda at the Cancún WTO ministerial. In addition to background on current WTO debates, (...)
- Comments by Jacques Berthelot on EU-US joint text on agriculture
This text does not change basically the unfair AoA rules, unfair not only to developing countries (DCs)’ farmers but also to farmers and civil societies in the North. Not only because the (...)
- public symposium from 16 to 18 June 2003
The World Trade Organization will host a public symposium from 16 to 18 June 2003 on the challenges WTO Members face ahead of the WTO’s 5th Ministerial Conference this September in Cancún, (...)
- Revised first draft "Harbinson", circulated to member governments on 18 March 2003
In preparing the original draft, the negotiations’ chairperson, Stuart Harbinson, drew on the 18 December 2002 overview paper, which was reviewed at a negotiations session of the (...)