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In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging.
Agricultural lands are vital to food security, which is imperative to the “no global hunger” objective of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Synopsis: Ethiopia’s social protection program is associated with improved household resilience
We examine the implication of the Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia on the economic resilience of rural households.
Ce document cherche à intégrer deux typologies spatiales existantes pour mieux comprendre les principaux obstacles et contraintes à la sécurité alimentaire et aux moyens de subsistance viables des agriculteurs au Mali.
Ce document cherche à intégrer deux typologies spatiales existantes pour mieux comprendre les principaux obstacles et contraintes à la sécurité alimentaire et aux moyens de subsistance viables des agriculteurs au Burkina Faso.
Ce document cherche à intégrer deux typologies spatiales existantes pour mieux comprendre les principaux obstacles et contraintes à la sécurité alimentaire et aux moyens de subsistance viables des agriculteurs au Sénégal.
The international community is facing considerable challenges today.
In the context of climate change the world faces growing environmental pressures described as planetary boundaries including air and water pollution, land degradation, natural resources depletion and extinctions of species among other environmenta
Some thoughts and proposals for a way forward
The WTO XII Ministerial Conference (MC12) will be a different and singular event for the organization and also for the participating member countries.
Restrictions and export duties: A pending issue
Export barriers (or controls) can take a variety of forms -such as prohibitions, taxes, quotas or licenses, among others- and have been applied to industrial and agricultural products, both by developed and developing countries, while pursuing eco
Market access
Market Access is one of the most significant and challenging pillars in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture due to its magnitude and the impacts associated with a change in agricultural trade rules.
Promoting transparency on agricultural policies at the WTO: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Transparency is present across all three pillars of the WTO Agriculture negotiations, with many technical submissions and proposals by WTO members that either address transparency exclusively, or include related elements within the areas they cove
One of the Uruguay Round’s more notable achievements was the establishment of the WTO Dispute Settlement System, considered as the “Jewel in the Crown” of the WTO.
In December 2017 the WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were difficult times both in terms of economic and political uncertainties.
Despite significant reforms over the past 25 years, the agricultural sector remains highly subsidized. Agricultural producer support is projected to reach almost USD 1.8 trillion in 2030 (FAO/UNDP/UNEP 2021).
Food security has been invoked for a variety of trade policy interventions and in many trade negotiations This chapter focuses on three trade topics for which food security concerns have been mentioned as the rationale (or at least part of it) for
New disciplines for domestic support
One of the hallmark accomplishments of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was the inclusion of agriculture in a system of multilateral rules and disciplines, including disciplines governing domestic support.
Measures taken in the context of the Covid-19 and discussed at the WTO Committee on agriculture
The purpose of this chapter is to take an inventory and to present the main content of some of the trade-related communications and declarations that WTO member countries submitted to the WTO Committee on Agriculture in 2020 and 2021 as response t