US urged to join Brazilian WTO challenge to South African poultry tariffs US poultry producers have called on the US government to join the Brazilian case against South African anti-dumping duties on poultry meats, mainta... 12/08/2012
WTO cotton discussions: Little progress, growing concerns According to analysis from the WTO Secretariat prepared as part of discussions within the Director General’s Framework Mechanism on Cotton, ‘the ne... 12/08/2012
WTO rules and food insecurity in perspective According to a new report written by a former FAO expert and published by ICSTD, while the increased levels and volatility of food prices since the... 29/07/2012
Executive Brief Update 2012: WTO Agreement on Agriculture About this updateThis brief was updated in June 2012 to reflect developments since July 2011.The 2011 publication was based on a fuller briefing pu... 12/07/2012
Food aid too limited to support national food security There is an ongoing discussion in the WTO and elsewhere on whether food aid is ‘part of the solution’ or ‘part of the problem’ when it comes to sup... 02/07/2012
Director-General of WTO criticises export restrictions Addressing an international conference, ‘Feeding the World’, organised in Geneva by the Economist, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy claimed in Febr... 31/03/2012
C4 and China agree cooperation deal on fringes of the WTO Ministerial Against the background of China’s growing influence in global cotton markets, the C4 cotton-producing African countries – Benin, Mali, Chad and Bur... 25/02/2012
The WTO responds to issues on agricultural trade policy tools and food security The Activity Report published in November 2011 by the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has provoked a strong respo... 23/01/2012
WTO Ministerial: a forum for small trade concessions Although the WTO Ministerial meeting of 15–17 December) failed to break the log-jam on the Doha Development Round, participants took the opportunit... 16/01/2012
C4 countries table ‘standstill principle’ proposal in WTO On 11 November 2011, a West African proposal to the WTO that ‘the US and EU should freeze trade-distorting support for cotton at current historical... 07/01/2012