Global agricultural trade has seen tremendous growth since creation of the WTO in 1995 and US agriculture has been a major beneficiary of the rules-based system that the United States and others helped create.
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After two decades of economic decline and stagnation, Africa has witnessed a remarkable overall economic and agricultural recovery over the last decade.
Recent dramatic increases in food prices are having severe consequences for poor countries and poor people.
The prices of maize, wheat, rice, and other crops have more than doubled over the past two years.
High food prices
"The food price crisis hits a world that has the most unequal distribution of income ever, and a world that has left the poorest behind.
"World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period.
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"This presentation explores a policy option that the United States might utilize to reduce the long-run fiscal cost of subsidies and facilitate agricultural trade liberalization, while providing substantial transition support to farmers.
Este informe se centra en cinco medidas que deben adoptarse para que la liberalización del comercio agrícola favorezca a los pobres, y enfatiza la necesidad de combinar la reforma de la política comercial con inversiones en desarrollo para crear t