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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
After 50 years of success, multilateral trade liberalization, conducted under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is in a deadlock, as illustrated by the impasse in which the Doha Round is for almost 20 years.
WTO dispute settlement cases involving Latin American countries and the agreement on agriculture, 1995-2019
Latin America, as a lead exporter of agricultural products, has a significant interest in open global markets. The region’s agriculture trade surplus has increased to U$54 billion in 2016-2018 from US$12 billion in 1996-1998.
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting national economies through several channels including global primary commodity trade and market disruptions.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique challenge to governments across the globe, reinforcing the need to improve understanding of domestic and international trade trends to provide more informed options for policy response.
Globalization and political economy of food policies: Insight from planting restrictions in colonial wine markets
Globalization transforms not just the economics of production and exchange in the world, but also the political economy of public policies.
The outlook for Myanmar’s inorganic fertilizer use and 2021 crop harvest: An ex-ante assessment
International inorganic fertilizer prices and shipping costs substantially increased in 2021 compared to a year earlier.