Conformément à l’Agenda 2063, la ZLECAf représente une étape majeure dans l’achèvement réel de l'intégration économique de l’Afrique.

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

The WTO XII Ministerial Conference (MC12) will be a different and singular event for the organization and also for the participating member countries.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Public stockholding programs are essential for food security but can present various problems for many developing countries.

The paper examines how these disciplines would affect production, prices, trade and farm sector income compared to a business-as-usual baseline

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Les économistes travaillant sur les barrières au commerce international s’intéressent beaucoup depuis une dizaine d’années aux barrières administratives, appelées parfois par euphémisme tracasseries administratives (« red tape » en anglais) et à l

This first chapter provides an overview of recent issues related to agricultural trade in Africa. Hence, the next section explains how the unprecedented shock of COVID-19 has had a major impact on trade and food security in Africa.

This chapter reviews efforts to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade, economic activity, and poverty in Africa, in view of the critical role that agricultural trade plays for millions of poor people.

[This] chapter has several objectives. First, we examine the main trade flows (by product and by destination and origin markets) for the three product groups of interest, with some focus on informal trade.

Combining analyses at the aggregate and sectoral levels offers the richest perspective for understanding Africa’s place in global agricultural trade.

MIRAGRODEP Dual-Dual is a recursive-dynamic multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model, devoted to trade and agricultural policy analysis. It is developed for AGRODEP and draws upon the MIRAGE model built by CEPII.